Background
Andrea Hollander Budy was born to American parents on April 28, 1947, Berlin, Germany, to Milton Henry (a physician) and Blanche Rosalind (Simon) Hollander. Budy was raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey.
Andrea Hollander Budy
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(In Andrea Hollander Budy's third full-length collection, ...)
In Andrea Hollander Budy's third full-length collection, the poet's family history is ranged against remarkable poems about Auden, Larkin, and Dickinson, as well as painters Munch and Vermeer.
https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Painting-Andrea-Hollander-Budy/dp/1932870113/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(This collection covers 20+ years of incredible poetry. Th...)
This collection covers 20+ years of incredible poetry. The craft and development of Hollander's poems over the years is highlighted. This collection covers 20+ years of incredible poetry. The craft and development of Hollander's poems over the years is highlighted.
https://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Female-Figure-selected-1982-2012/dp/1932870857/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Andrea Hollander Budy was born to American parents on April 28, 1947, Berlin, Germany, to Milton Henry (a physician) and Blanche Rosalind (Simon) Hollander. Budy was raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey.
Andrea Hollander Budy received her Bachelor of Science from Boston University in 1968 and her Master of Arts from the University of Colorado in 1972.
Poet and teacher Andrea Hollander Budy served as the writer-in-residence at Lyon College in Batesville (Independence County) from 1991 to 2013. The author of four full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks, Andrea Hollander Budy has published more than 250 poems and essays in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Hudson Review, Doubletake, Shenandoah, FIELD, Nimrod, and Arts & Letters. In addition, she has written book reviews for Kirkus Reviews, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Andrea Budy was the founding director at Open Window, a school for high school dropouts in East Boston, Massachusetts, from 1972 to 1973. Andrea Hollander Budy spent more than 20 years teaching herself the craft of poetry through the works of others before she published her first book at age 46.
Andrea Hollander Budy's collections include three chapbooks: Living on the Cusp, published by Moonsquilt Press in 1981; Happily Ever After, a re-imagining of certain fairytales, published by Panhandler Press in 1989; and What the Other Eye Sees, published by Wayland Press in 1991. She has published five full-length collections. House Without a Dreamer (1993) and The Other Life (2001) were both published by Story Line Press. Autumn House published Woman in the Painting in 2006 and Landscape with Female Figure: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2012 in 2013. In 2018, Autumn House Press released her fifth collection, Blue Mistaken for Sky. Her Pushcart Prize-winning essay The Hickeys on Sally Palermo’s Neck was published as a chapbook by Words from the Woods in 2007 and used as the common reader for freshmen at Lyon College that same year. Andrea Hollander Budy edited When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Autumn House, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, college textbooks, and literary journals.
Andrea Hollander Budy has given more than 200 readings, lectures, and workshops to audiences of all ages at public and private schools, cultural centers, and libraries, including the New York Public Library, Vassar College, Arizona Western College, Shorter College, Texas A& M, College of Charleston, Furman University, University of Georgia, and Suffolk University.
In the summers, Andrea Hollander Budy is frequently on the faculty of writers’ conferences, workshops, and institutes, including The Frost Place, The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers, the Foothill College Writers’ Conference, the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, The Charleston Writers’ Conference, and Poetry OtherWise at Emerson College in England. She has served as Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah; the University of Burgundy (France); the University of Sussex (England); and St Bede’s School (England).
Andrea Hollander Budy's poetry has been read on-air on The Writer's Almanac, a radio program produced by Garrison Keillor.
(In Andrea Hollander Budy's third full-length collection, ...)
2006(This collection covers 20+ years of incredible poetry. Th...)
2013
Quotations:
"I write with as much passion and openness as possible, caring centrally about the language I use, its music, its texture, its potency, its ability to move the human spirit beyond itself. I’m not prolific, nor do 1 believe that poets ought to be. Poetry, after all is meant to be a distillation; it’s meant to speak the human heart in the best and fewest possible words."
"As far as the next century of American poetry is concerned, I imagine a continuation: most of what is written and published and shared aloud with audiences on college campuses and bars and bookstores will be replaced by similar outpourings by writers not yet born. And, as always, a few of the voices among us will continue, even after these writers are no longer alive."
Andrea Budy is a member of the Academy of American Poets, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, and the Poetry Society of America.
Quotes from others about the person
"Andrea Hollander Budy knows what to hold back as she lets us in. And so we willingly bring ourselves into her subtly registered emotional world. There’s a lovely blend of qualities at work here - an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees." - Stephen Dunn
"Budy’s impeccable conversational diction does what a poem should do: raises the hairs on the nape of your neck." - Maxine Kumin
In 1976, Andrea Hollander Budy married Toddy Budy, a designer/builder, and they moved to Mountain View (Stone County), where they restored the old Commercial Hotel and transformed it into the Wildflower Bed & Breakfast. The couple had a son, Brooke Sparrow Budy. In 2011, Hollander divorced, reverted to her maiden name, and moved to Portland, Oregon, where her son lives.