| Degree: |
Ph.D. Ohio University, 1968 |
| Area Groups: |
Creative Writing; Film Studies and Cultural Studies |
| Major Publications: |
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (Norton, 2008), Old Heart (Norton, 2007), Argument and Song (Handsel, 2003), Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems (Ecco, 2001) The Marriage in the Trees (1997), Boy on the Step (Ecco/Norton, 1989), Summer Celestial (Ecco/Norton, 1983), Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977), Giraffe (Louisiana Press, 1974), How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973), In the Outer Dark (Louisiana State, 1970).
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| Articles: |
Approximately 350 items in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and 50 other equivalent magazines; poems and essays in 40 anthologies.
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| Teaching & Service: |
Director, Creative Writing Program; Baker Fund Teaching Award (Ohio U.); Research Enabling Grant (U. of Houston); Theodore Roethke Chair in Poetry (U. Of Washington); approximately 300 lectures, readings and residences: National--YMHA, New York, Folger Shakespeare Library, Bread Loaf, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, U. of Iowa; International--Hawthorden Castle, U. of Edinburgh, La Poesia Americana, Fano, Italy, Toronto World Poetry Festival, Festival Franco-Anglais de Poesie, Paris.
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| Fellowships & Prizes: |
Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, 1972; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; 3 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships; the Ingram-Merrill Foundation Award, 6 Pushcart Prizes; nominations for National Book Critics Circle Award and The William Carlos Williams Award.
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