About Mona Van Duyn
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Mona Van Duyn was educated at the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa. Typically, a formalist poet, she often works in long lines with varied meters. Sometimes taking up philosophical topics, she also writes about the commonplace events of ordinary life, as with “Toward a Definition of Marriage.” She has taught most recently at Washington University. See her If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959—1982 (1993).Browse all poems and texts published on Mona Van Duyn
