If you're in a rush and want some quick information on the author, then this is the site for you. Accessing the "Academy of American Poet's May Swenson" page will provide you with basic information about the writer. Here you'll find a short biography, a selected bibliography, an online version of her poem "Blue," and a link to Swenson exhibits elsewhere on the Web.

Weber Studies: May Swenson
http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/Vol.%208.1/8.1%20Swenson.htm

Here at the May Swenson Page of "Weber Studies" ("…a quarterly journal informing the culture of the contemporary west"), you'll be pleasantly surprised by the selection of three lengthy unpublished poems written by the author ("Kiwi," "The Many Christs," and "Seven Days on the Sea"). This page also provides the visitor with a short biography of Swenson, and a list of her publications and accomplishments.

May Swenson Papers
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/swenson/

Advanced scholars of the writer are offered open access to Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Library's "May Swenson Papers." Contact information is provided at the site; ask for permission to visit the library, or perhaps view the text online.

BIOGRAPHY
May Swenson (b. 1919) as born in Logan, Utah, and earned her bachelor's degree from Utah State University in 1939. Her first book of poems, Another Animal, appeared in 1954, followed by A Cage of Spines (1958), and To Mix with Time New and Selected Poems (1963). From 1959 to 1966, she served as editor at New Directions publishers and taught poetry at Bryn Mawr, the University of North Carolina, the University of California, Riverside, Purdue University, and Utah State University. Though much of her later poetry is devoted to children, she also published translations of contemporary Swedish poets, including the collection Iconographs (1970) and the selected poems of Tomas Transtromer. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships-among them a Guggenheim, a Ford Foundation Poet-Playwright Grant, an Army Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and a Robert Frost Fellowship-she was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and served as chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1980 until her death in 1989. According to critic Harold Bloom, she ranks with Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop as one of the three best women poets of the twentieth century.