Michael Ryan (poet)
Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.[1]
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.[2] He is currently the director of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine.
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 Alaska Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker,[3] Poetry Magazine.[4]
He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.[5]
Awards
- 1974 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for Threats Instead of Trees
- 1980 National Poetry Series, In Winter
- 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
- 1987 Whiting Award
- 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger
- 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems
Selected publications
- "A Posthumous Poetics". Poetry. September 1973.
- "Insult". The New Yorker. November 5, 2007.
- "Airplane Food". Threepenny Review. Winter 2005.
- 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://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-18/news/ls-24993_1_michael-ryan
- ↑ 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.
- Whiting Foundation Profile