Discipline: Literature – poetry

Mary Jo Salter

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Baltimore, MD
MacDowell fellowships: 1979, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011

Mary Jo Salter worked on her seventh collection of poems, Nothing by Design (2013). Her most recent volume, A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2008) was released in paperback.

Studios

Mansfield

Mary Jo Salter worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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