- Michael Ryan (poet)
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Michael Ryan (born 1946 St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.[1]
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Life
He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing.
His work has appeared regularly in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker,[2] Poetry Magazine.[3]
He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.[4]
Awards
- 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- Whiting Writers Award
- 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Award
- 1980 National Poetry Series
Selected publications
- "A Posthumous Poetics". Poetry. September 1973. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21882.
- "Insult". The New Yorker. November 5, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/11/05/071105po_poem_ryan.
- "Airplane Food". Threepenny Review. Winter 2005. http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/ryanmichael_w05.html.
- New And Selected Poems. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- Baby B [memoir]. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
- A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing [essays]. (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
- Secret Life [autobiography]. (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback, 1996)
- God Hunger [poems]. (Viking Penguin, 1989; paperback, 1990)
- In Winter [poems]. (Holt, 1981)
- Threats Instead of Trees [poems]. (Yale University Press, 1974)
References
- ^ http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/english/faculty/profile.cfm?ID=2496
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/michael_ryan/search?contributorName=michael%20ryan
- ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5916
- ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/388
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/12740-michael-ryan
External links
- "Michael Ryan", How a Poem Happens, February 9, 2009
- Peter Harris (Summer 1991). "Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi". Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1991/summer/harris-hunger-hope/.
Categories:- 1946 births
- Living people
- American essayists
- American educators
- American poets
- American writers of Irish descent
- Princeton University faculty
- University of Virginia faculty
- University of Iowa faculty
- University of California, Irvine faculty
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