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Ned Balbo 
Ned Balbo attending the West Chester University Poetry ConferenceBorn November 19, 1959 Occupation poet, essayist, and professor Nationality American Alma mater Brentwood High School '77
University of Iowa '89, M.F.A.
Vassar College '81, A.B.
Johns Hopkins University '86, M.A.Genres poetry Notable award(s) Donald Justice Poetry Prize, 2010 Spouse(s) Jane Satterfield Ned Balbo (born November 19, 1959) is an award-winning poet and essayist. He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield, and her daughter Catherine.[1]
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Life
Ned Balbo was born on November 19, 1959.[2] He grew up in Long Island, New York.[1] He was raised in a blue-collar setting by his birth mother's half-sister and her husband who he believed were his parents.[1][3] Years later, when his aunt and uncle sought a legal adoption, his birth parents refused consent. Balbo learned of this arrangement when he was thirteen.[4]
Balbo graduated from Brentwood High School in 1977.[5] He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Vassar College in 1981, his Master of Arts at Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa in 1989.[1][6] Since 1990, he has taught poetry and prose at Loyola University Maryland.
Poetry and style
According to Lisa Vihos in Verse Wisconsin, "Balbo employs traditional forms but takes liberty with them to good effect." In addition, he "gives shape and heft to the formless, fleeting past--both historical and personal--through his rich language."[7] In reviewing The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems for JMWW, Patricia Valdata observes that Balbo's work "raises difficult questions about home, about the relationship of parent to child, about a society's responsibility to its poor."[8]
Balbo's earliest poems were influenced by rock music and Catholic prayers.[3] He became interested in form and meter at an early age, having written songs and poems as a child and adolescent.[1] He has written in a wide variety of forms, including blank verse, sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and nonce forms, as well as free verse.[1]
Awards
In addition to the various awards given for his books, Balbo's distinctions include three Maryland Arts Council grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.[1] The latter was awarded for the essay "Walt Whitman's Finches: on discretion and disclosure in autobiography and adoption," published in the literary journal Crab Orchard Review in 2002.[9] "My Father's Music," an essay on adoption, ethnicity, and popular culture, and a finalist for the William Faulkner Society's Gold Medal in the Essay,[10] appears in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian American Writers (Other Press, 2006).[11] He has also been a Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference and several times a fellow in poetry at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.[12]
Bibliography
- 1998 — Galileo’s Banquet (Washington Writers' Publishing House; winner of Towson University Prize)[1]
- 2005 — Lives of the Sleepers (University of Notre Dame Press; winner of Ernest Sandeen Prize and ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Gold Medal in Poetry)[1][13]
- 2009 — Something Must Happen (Finishing Line Press)[1]
- 2010 — The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center; winner of Donald Justice Poetry Prize)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lori A. May "An interview with Ned Balbo." Poets' Quarterly Issue 3. April 2010.
- ^ "MARC Display." Library of Congress Authorities. The Library of Congress.
- ^ a b Kayla M. Miller. "Poetry reading with Satterfield, Balbo." The West Georgian. September 1, 2010.
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- ^ Ned Balbo's Facebook
- ^ Graduate Programs. Loyola College in Maryland
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- ^ "Ned Balbo's Biography." Ned Balbo: Poet and Essayist. Red Room. Accessed: Sept. 26, 2010
- ^ http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01015
External links
- "Fire Victim" by Ned Balbo - American Life in Poetry, selected by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate.
- "Four Poems" by Ned Balbo - Studio Journal.
- "Desire: A Bestiary" by Ned Balbo - Verse Daily.
- "Chesterfield" by Ned Balbo - The Writer's Almanac, selected by Garrison Keillor.
- "Lives of the Sleepers" by Ned Balbo - Image Update book review.
- "Aristaeus Forgiven" by Ned Balbo - Frost Notes, Robert Frost Foundation.
Categories:- Loyola University Maryland faculty
- Vassar College alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- American poets
- Living people
- Formalist poets
- 1959 births
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