The following comprises our list of poets as of fall 2005:
Margaret Atwood: Morning in the Burned House; Selected Poems I; Selected Poems II
Atwood has published eleven volumes of poetry in Canada, the United States, and sixteen other countries. In addition, her poems have been published in numerous chapbooks, magazines, and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1995. Atwood won the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1967 for her first collection, The Circle Game.
Michael Collier: The Ledge, Dark Wild Realm
Collier has been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for nine years and has taught English at the University of Maryland for nineteen years. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the Discovery/The Nation Award, among other honors. Collier was named poet laureate of Maryland in 2001. The Ledge was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Miranda Field: Swallow
Field is the winner of a Discovery / The Nation Award, a fellowship to the 2002 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She is currently a writer in residence at the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. Swallow, her first book, was selected by Carol Muske-Dukes to receive the 2001 Bakeless Prize in poetry.
Erica Funkhouser: Sure Shot and Other Poems; The Actual World; Pursuit
Funkhouser, who has worked as a playwright as well as a poet, lives in Essex, Massachusetts, and teaches writing at MIT. She is a recipient of three awards from the Poetry Society of America.
Linda Gregerson: The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep; Waterborne
Linda Gregerson's Waterborne received the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Award. The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep was a finalist for both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Poets' Prize. Gregerson's other awards include the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, the Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, and two Pushcart Prizes. She has received grants and fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Gregerson is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Jennifer Grotz: Cusp
Grotz has received grants and scholarships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and periodicals, including The Best American Poetry 2002. Cusp was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa to receive the 2002 Bakeless Prize in poetry.
Donald Hall: Without; Old and New Poems; The Old Life; The One Day; The Museum of Clear Ideas; The Painted Bed
Hall's first book of poems, Exiles and Marriages, appeared more than forty years ago; it was the Lamont Poetry Selection. Hall has been the poet laureate of New Hampshire and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for The One Day, the 1987 Lenore Marshall Award for The Happy Man, the 1990 Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems, and the 1994 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize of the American Council for the Arts. The Painted Bed was a 2003 American Library Association Notable Book. Hall lives in New Hampshire on the family farm, which is described in his Eagle Pond books.
Andrew Hudgins: Babylon in a Jar; After the Lost War: A Narrative; The Never-Ending; The Glass Hammer
Hudgins teaches at the University of Cincinnati. After the Lost War won the Poets' Prize, and The Never-Ending was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Rodney Jones: Elegy for the Southern Drawl; Things That Happen Once; Transparent Gestures; Apocalyptic Narrative; Kingdom of the Instant
Jones was born in 1950 in northern Alabama. He is the author of six collections of verse; Transparent Gestures, his third, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University and recently won the Harper Lee Award.
Galway Kinnell: A New Selected Poems; Imperfect Thirst; The Book of Nightmares; Three Books: Body Rags / Mortal Acts, Mortal Words / The Past; The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems, 1953–1964
Kinnell is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been the state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A New Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at New York University, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing.
Thomas Lux: Split Horizon; New and Selected Poems; The Street of Clocks; The Cradle Place
Lux holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he received the Kingsley Tufts Award for Split Horizon (1994), and his New and Selected Poems: 1975–1995 was shortlisted for both the Poets' Prize and the Lenore Marshall / The Nation Award.
Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems, 1917–1982; J.B.: A Book in Verse
MacLeish, a writer, teacher, and public servant, died in 1982. The 1976 edition of his Collected Poems earned him the second of his three Pulitzer Prizes.
Malinda Markham: Ninety-five Nights of Listening
Markham received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She teaches at Daito Bunka University in Tokyo. Ninety-five Nights of Listening, her first book, was selected by Carol Muske-Dukes to receive a 2001 Bakeless Prize.
Herbert Mason: Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
Mason is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of History and Religious Thought at Boston University. Gilgamesh was a best-selling National Book Award finalist.
William Matthews: Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews (edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly); After All; Selected Poems and Translations; Time & Money
Matthews (1942–1997) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Time & Money in 1995 and the Ruth Lilly Award of the Modern Poetry Association in 1997. At the time of his death he was a professor of English and the director of the writing program at the College of the City University of New York.
Glyn Maxwell: Time's Fool; The Boys at Twilight; The Breakage; The Nerve; The Sugar Mile
Maxwell was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire, England, and studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize, awarded in 1997 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He now lives in the United States and serves as the poetry editor of the New Republic.
Mary Oliver: Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
Oliver has written more than ten volumes of poetry and prose, including West Wind and Rules for the Dance. She is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Spencer Reece: The Clerk's Tale
Reece was born in 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Boulevard, and small magazines in Canada, Australia, and Britain. The Clerk's Tale was fifteen years in the making. Reece is an assistant manager at Brooks Brothers in Palm Beach Gardens. He lives in Lantana, Florida.
Michael Ryan: New and Selected Poems
Ryan's New and Selected Poems received the 2005 Kingsley Tufts Award for poetry. Ryan is the author of Threats Instead of Trees, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and a National Book Award finalist, 1974; In Winter, a National Poetry Series selection, 1981; and God Hunger, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize, 1990. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. In 1995 he published Secret Life, a highly acclaimed and provocative autobiography that became a New York Times Notable Book, and in 2000, A Difficult Grace, essays about poetry and writing. A new memoir, Baby B — excerpted in The New Yorker — will be published this year.
Grace Schulman: The Paintings of Our Lives; Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems
Schulman has received the Delmore Schwartz Award for poetry, and her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1995 and The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1998. She is a winner of the 2002 Aiken-Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best Book of Poetry (2002), a winner of the Pushcart Prize (2003) for her poem "In the Café," and a winner of the Distinguished Alumna Award from New York University. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, as well as the poetry editor of The Nation and a former director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
Anne Sexton: Complete Poems; Transformations; Love Poems; Selected Poems
Sexton was born in 1928 and lived all her life in the Boston area. In 1967 she received the Pulitzer Prize. She committed suicide in 1974.
Alan Shapiro: Song and Dance; Tantalus in Love
Shapiro is the author of eight books of poetry, including Mixed Company, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His memoir, The Last Happy Occasion, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the 2001 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award for his collection The Dead Alive and Busy. He teaches at the University of North Carolina.
L. E. Sissman: Night Music: Selected Poems
Louis Edward Sissman was born in Detroit in 1928. A graduate of Harvard University, he made his living as an advertising executive in Boston. His collected poems, Hello, Darkness, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978.
Ron Slate: The Incentive of the Maggot
Slate's debut collection is the recipient of the 2004 Bakeless Prize for poetry as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry. He is a graduate of the Stanford writing program, and was editor of the Chowder Review from 1973 to 1988. His early poems were published in Antaeus, the Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, the Massachusetts Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is currently an executive of a biotech start-up company and lives in Milton, Massachusetts.
Tom Sleigh: Far Side of the Earth
Sleigh is the author of four previous collections of poetry: After One, Waking, The Chair, and The Dreamhouse. He has received grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and numerous awards, including the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award. He teaches at Dartmouth College and in New York University's graduate creative writing program.
May Swenson: Nature; The Love Poems of May Swenson; The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson
Swenson (1913–1989) received many awards for her work, among them the Bollingen Prize and a MacArthur fellowship. Born in Logan, Utah, she published eleven volumes of poems during her lifetime.
Natasha Trethewey: Native Guard
Trethewey is the inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Among her many honors are a Guggenheim fellowship, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
David Tucker: Late For Work
Tucker is the recepient of the 2005 Bakeless Prize for poetry. He studied poetry with Donald Hall at the University of Michigan writing program. Currently, Tucker is assistant managing editor of the New Jersey Star-Ledger metro section.
Translations:
Anna Akhmatova: Poems of Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward
Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by A. Poulin, Jr.
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