Bridget Lowe

Bridget Loweis an American poet.

In an early interview, Lowe expressed her interest in and commitment to “figures who are rejected by the same social groups for which they are expected to perform.” ThePoetry Foundationelaborates “Her poetry is accordingly concerned with those who feel they are both looked at and invisible, who are exploited yet remain deeply unknown.”

Biography

Bridget Lowe was born inKansas City, Missouri.She is the author of two collections of poetry withCarnegie Mellon University Press:At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinskyin 2013, followed byMy Second Workin 2020. Her work has appeared in numerous publications includingThe New Yorker,Poetry,The New Republic,Parnassus,and theAmerican Poetry Review.Her work has also appeared in theBest American Poetryanthology.

Awards

While a student at Syracuse University’s MFA program, Lowe was awarded aDiscovery/Boston ReviewPrize from the 92Y.In 2015, Lowe was awarded the Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award from thePoetry Society of America.She is also a recipient of a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and a Rona Jaffee Foundation fellowship toMacDowell.

Critical reception

In an early feature on her work atGwarlingo,Michelle Aldredge noted that Lowe's poems are "lyrics and elegies from material as disparate as science, history, and pop culture. The poems... feel simultaneously contemporary and very 19th century."

In theKenyon Review,Lucy Biederman wrote: "There is bravery in Lowe's focus on emotions besides love and hate, in the rigor and ruthlessness with which she describes, instead, disappointment, disgust, humiliation, and mild surprise... The poems in this book go deep, beyond the beauty and the ugliness, as T.S. Eliot instructs, to 'the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.'"

Her work has also been reviewed inPublishers Weekly,Green Mountains Review,32 Poems,andThe Collagist.

Works

• At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013)
• My Second Work(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020)