Elizabeth Macklin (born 1952 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American poet.

Life

She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of Madrid. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City. She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000. She works as a translator with The Basque Literature Series. Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review.

Awards

Works

Poetry Books

Anthologies

Essays

Criticism

Translations

Reviews

In May 2000, The New York Times' Deborah Weisgall noted: "Around her poetry Elizabeth Macklin uses grammar as a scaffolding of detachment. She builds precarious platforms that enable her to see her past and her family and to sort through the chaotic pain of memory: to examine the deceptive facets of truth. These poems parse life's sentences. Tension arises from how Macklin tests grammar's ability, both as metaphor and as the raw material of language, to enclose her oblique and urgent questions. Sometimes her grammar is playfully inflected -- she watches, in an altered state, a wisp of smoke rise, 'high, highest, higher' -- sometimes dead serious."