Grace Schulman Wins the Frost Medal

Grace Schulman, a Springs poet and a distinguished professor of English at Baruch College in New York City, has been chosen to receive the 2016 Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal for Distinguished Achievement in American Poetry. An awards ceremony is to be held in April at the National Arts Club in Manhattan. 

Ms. Schulman is the author of seven collections of poems including, most recently, “Without a Claim.” She is also the author of “Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems,” which was selected by Library Journal as one of the best poetry books of 2002 and was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Award that year, and “The Paintings of Our Lives,” a selection of the Academy of American Poets book club. 

She is the editor of “The Poems of Marianne Moore,” and her recent collection of essays is “First Loves and Other Adventures.” 

Ms. Schulman, who has taught poetry at Princeton, Columbia, Wesleyan, and Warren Wilson College, is former poetry editor of The Nation and former director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, where she still conducts a poets’ tutorial.

Among her honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Italy. Her poems have received four Pushcart Prizes. 

Ms. Schulman, a resident of Clearwater, said this week that she is nearing completion of a new book of poems, and that she “writes best in the quiet woods and water of Springs.”