Bruce Weigl

Bruce Weigl

Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet who currently teaches at Lorain County Community College.

Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent four years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star . When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire. From 1975-76, Weigl was an instructor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.

Weigl's first full-length collection of poems, "A Romance", was published in 1979. After he received a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1979, he was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas and later held the same position at Old Dominion University. During the 1980s, Weigl published two more poetry collections, "The Monkey Wars" and "Song of Napalm". In 1986, Weigl became an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and was later promoted to a professor of English. In 1999, he published two more poetry collections, "Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems" and "After the Others". He left Penn State in 2000 and took a position at Lorain County Community College as a distinguished professor. He also published a memoir that year titled "The Circle of Hanh: A Memoir".

Many of Weigl's poems are inspired by the time he spent in the U.S. Army and Vietnam. In "The Circle of Hanh", Weigl writes, "The war took away my life and gave me poetry in return...the fate the world has given me is to struggle to write powerfully enough to draw others into the horror." In addition to writing his own poetry, Weigl translated poems of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers captured during war with Thanh T. Nguten of the Joiner Research Center. The two men accepted an invitation from the Vietnamese Writers Association and traveled to Hanoi to receive assistance in translating the poems.

Weigl's first award was a prize from the American Academy of Poets in 1979. He received two Pushcart Prizes, a Patterson Poetry Prize, and a Yaddo Foundation Fellowship. Weigl was awarded the Bread Loaf Fellowship in Poetry in 1981 and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 for Arts and Creative Writing. He was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for "Song of Napalm". His poems are featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies. Weigl additionally served as the president of the Associated Writing Programs.

Weigl currently is a visiting distinguished professor at Lorain County Community College.

Works

Poetry

*"Like a Sack Full of Old Quarrels". Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Series, 1976.
*"A Romance". Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1979.
*"The Monkey Wars". Athens: U of Georgia P, 1984.
*"Song of Napalm". New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
*"What Saves Us". Evanston: TriQuarterly Books, 1992.
*"Sweet Lorain". Evanston: Triquarterly Books, 1996.
*"Not on the Map". Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1996.
*"Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems". New York: Grove Press, 1999.
*"After the Others". Evanston, IL: Triquarterly Books/Northwestern UP, 1999.

Prose

*"The Circle of Hanh: A Memoir". New York: Grove Press, 2000.

References

*"Bruce Weigl." "The Gale Literary Database: Contemporary Authors". The Gale Group. 13 July 2001. Thomson Corporation. 2002. 14 May 2002. http://www.galenet.com.
*"Bruce Weigl." Lorain Public Library System. 14 May 2002. http://www.lorain.lib.oh.us/localauthors/weigl_biography.html.
*Weigl, Bruce. "The Circle of Hanh". New York: Grove Press, 2000.
*Criswell, Mandy. "Weigl, Bruce." 29 May 2007. http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Weigl__Bruce.html.


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