Jody Gladding
Jody Gladding is an American translator and poet. She was selected by James Dickey for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Life
She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, and Cornell University.Gladding, who also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, is the author of four books of poetry, one of which is a letterpress edition and one of which is a chapbook. She also has been involved in two performance/installations in collaboration with fellow poet and friend Suzanne Heyd. She has received numerous prizes, fellowships and awards for both her poetry and her translations.
Her poems have recently appeared in these journals: ''Agni, Chicago Review, ecopoetics, Grand Street, Hunger Mountain, Northern Woodlands, Orion, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Terra Nova, Wild Earth, Wilderness Magazine, Yale Review.''
Works
Blue Willow, On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists, March 1994, New Cambridge Press, Poetry 180, Library of CongressTwo Poems, Paris Review, Number 134, Spring 1995The Two Houses, Yale Review, January 1997Blue Willow; Indian Paint; Silver Queen; Uncle, AGNI 37, Boston UniversityBeam; Shells, AGNI 45, Boston UniversityAunt Peter, AGNI 56, Boston University, 2002Books
The Moon Rose,, with accompanying woodcuts by Susan Walp.- a chapbook
Translations
- François Cheng, The Way of Beauty
- Hervé This, The Science of the Oven
- Michel Pastoureau, Black: History of a Color
- Pierre Michon, Small Lives, winner of the 2009 French-American Foundation Translation Prize
- Hervé This, Kitchen Mysteries
- Natalie Rigal, Winning the Food Fight
- Madeleine Ferrières, Sacred Cow, Mad Cow
- Jean Giono, The Serpent of Stars,, finalist for the 2004 French–American Foundation Translation Prize
- François Weil, A History of New York
- Sylviane Agacinski, Time Passing,
- J.-R. Pitte, French Gastronomy
- Pierre Moinot, As Night Follows Day,
- Michel Pastoureau, The Devil’s Cloth,
- Jean Markale, The Epics of Celtic Ireland
- D. Alexandre-Bidon, Children in the Middle Ages
- Jean Markale, The Great Goddess
- Gilbert Dahan, The Christian Polemic Against the Jews in the Middle Ages
- Pierre Mabille, Mirror of the Marvelous
- Daniel Odier, ''Tantric Quest''
''Ploughshares''
Fellowships and awards
- French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 2009, for Small Lives
- Resident Poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH, 2007
- Centre National du Livre de France Translation Grant, 2007
- French-American Foundation Prize Finalist, 2004, for Serpent of Stars
- Whiting Award, 1997
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, 1992, for Stone Crop
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing; Stanford University, 1982–83
- Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing; Cornell University, 1979–80