- Philip Appleman
Philip D. Appleman (born February 8th 1926) is an American
poet . He is the distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington.He has published seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996); three novels, including Apes and Angels (Putnam, 1989); and half a dozen nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition, Darwin and the Norton Critical Edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. His poetry and fiction have won many awards, including a fellowship in poetry from the
National Endowment for the Arts , the Castagnola Award from thePoetry Society of America , the Friend of Darwin Award from theNational Center for Science Education , and the Humanist Arts Award of theAmerican Humanist Association , and have appeared in scores of publications, includingHarper's Magazine ,The Nation ,New Republic ,New York Times ,Paris Review ,Partisan Review , Poetry,Sewanee Review , andYale Review . He has given readings of his poetry at theLibrary of Congress , theGuggenheim Museum , theHuntington Library , and many universities. He is a founding member of the Poets Advisory Committee ofPoets House , New York, a former member of the governing board of thePoetry Society of America , and a member of theAcademy of American Poets ,PEN American Center , Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc., and theAuthors Guild of America .Appleman has written many poems drawing on the work of Charles Darwin.
:"Biographical notes from Who's Who in America, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 18"
External links
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/appleman.html Homepage] at Indiana University
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