Stephen Yenser (born 1941,
Wichita, Kansas, United States) is an American
poet and
literary critic who has published three acclaimed volumes of verse, as well as books on
James Merrill,
Robert Lowell, and an assortment of contemporary poets. With
J.D. McClatchy, he is co-literary executor of the James Merrill estate and co-editor of six volumes of Merrill's work.
Life
Yenser graduated from the
University of Wisconsin, studying with
James Merrill in 1967 on one of the rare occasions when the poet taught.[1] Merrill dedicated to Yenser his final, posthumous collection, A Scattering of Salts (1995).
His work has appeared in Paris Review,[3]Poetry,[4]Southwest Review, Yale Review, "The New Yorker," and many other magazines. He lives in
Los Angeles with his wife Melissa Berton and daughter Helen.[5]
Awards
Appearances in BEST AMERICAN POETRY anthologies 1992, 1995, 2011
Paul N. Courant; Ann Kjellberg; J. D. McClatchy; Edward Mendelson; Margo Viscusi; Tappan Wilder; Stephen Yenser (March 26, 2009).
"Google & Books: An Exchange". The New York Review of Books. 56 (5).
"Musing". Best American Poetry. February 10, 2009.
References
^"UCLA". Spotlight.ucla.edu. Archived from
the original on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2017.