Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand is the recipient of many distinguished honors, including a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. Strand is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Mark Strand is the author of ten books of poems, including Blizzard of One (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor (1993); The Continuous Life (1990); Selected Poems (1980); The Story of Our Lives (1973); and Reasons for Moving (1968).

Strand has also published two books of prose, several volumes of translation (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), several monographs on contemporary artists, and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes, including The Golden Ecco Anthology (1994), The Best American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (with Charles Simic, 1976).

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