Michael McGriff | |
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 McGriff at the 2014 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable awards | Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (2007) |
Michael McGriff is an American poet.
Life
McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI,[1] The Believer, Missouri Review,[2] and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books,[3] a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.
McGriff's book Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest. His most recent book of poetry, Early Hour, is a book length sequence inspired by German Expressionist Karl Hofer's 1935 painting (Fruhe Stunde[4]) of the same name.
McGriff currently teaches creative writing[5] at the University of Idaho.
Awards
- Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University[6]
- Ruth Lilly Fellowship[7] from The Poetry Foundation
- Michener Fellowship[8] from the University of Texas at Austin
- 2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for Dismantling the Hills
- 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
- 2013 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University
Works
- "Year of the Rat", Courtland Review, Spring 2009
- Choke. Traprock Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9767411-2-1.
- Dismantling the Hills. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8229-6007-2.
- Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
- Black Postcards (Willow Springs Books, 2017)
- Early Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
- Eternal Sentences (The University of Arkansas Press, 2021)
Anthology
- Larry Smith, ed. (2005). Family matters: poems of our families. Bottom Dog Press. ISBN 978-0-933087-95-8.
Translation
- "From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
- "Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
- Tomas Tranströmer (2009). The Sorrow Gondola. Translator Michael McGriff. Green Integer. ISBN 978-1-933382-44-9.
References
- ^ "AGNI Online: Author Michael McGriff". Bu.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "TMR: Michael McGriff". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
- ^ "Tavern Books". Tavernbooks.com. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Frühe Stunde (Early Hour)". Portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "M.F.A. Creative Writing".
- ^ "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ "Foundation Awards". 29 September 2021.
- ^ https://michener.utexas.edu
External links
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