Background
Clampitt, Amy Kathleen was born on June 15, 1920 in New Providence, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Roy Justin and Lutie Pauline (Felt) Clampitt.
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Clampitt, Amy Kathleen was born on June 15, 1920 in New Providence, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Roy Justin and Lutie Pauline (Felt) Clampitt.
Bachelor of Arts with honors in English, Grinnell College, 1941; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Grinnell College, 1984; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bowdoin College, 1992.
In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editors Not until the mid-1960s, when she was in her forties, did she return to writing poetry.
Her first poem was published by The New Yorker in 1978.
In 1983, at the age of sixty-three, she published her first full-length collection, The Kingfisher. In the decade that followed, Clampitt published five books of poetry, including What the Light Was Like (1985), Archaic Figure (1987), and Westward (1990).
Her last book, A Silence Opens, appeared in 1994. She also published a book of essays and several privately printed editions of her longer poems.
She taught at the College of William and Mary, Smith College, and Amherst College, but it was her time spent in Manhattan, in a remote part of Maine, and on various trips to Europe, the former Soviet Union, Iowa, Wales, and England that most directly influenced her work.
She died of cancer in September 1994.
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Clampitt was the recipient of a 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and she was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Poets.