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Carolyn Forché
1990 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
No one has worked harder to bring the brutal extremities of political life in the 20th century into the orbit of American poetry than Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, anthologist, and human rights activist.
Her 1982 volume, The Country Between Us, commemorates two years spent working with human rights advocates in El Salvador; it contains some of the most powerful poems of political violence and political commitment ever written in the United States.
Carolyn Forché Bio and Cross Links
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James Galvin
2002 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
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Suzanne Gardinier
1992 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Jack Gilbert
1994 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Louise Glück
1999 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Louise Glück says of writing, “[It] is not decanting of personality. The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned.”
Glück was appointed the United States Poet Laureate in 2003. She is the author of numerous books of poetry including The Seven Ages, and The Wild Iris, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent publication is a chapbook called October, identifying with the season of autumn, the dark of it and the beauty of it.
Louise Glück Bio and Cross Links
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Linda Gregg
2003 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
Linda Gregg was born in Suffren, New York, grew up in bucolic Marin County, California, and has traveled extensively. Her poetry collections include Things and Flesh, Chosen by the Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, and Too Bright to See.
She has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and the University of California-Berkeley. She has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and she is the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award. Gregg lives in New York City.
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Seamus Heaney
1990 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Born into a Catholic farming family in Northern Ireland in 1939, he has been a resident of the Irish Republic since 1972.
Since 1981 he has spent part of each year teaching at Harvard University, where he served as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory from 1984 to 1998, and is now the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence.
Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, uses all aspects of Irish culture, history, folklore, song, myth, and religion to write poetry that not only describes the Irish experience to the reader, but also allows the reader to feel the experience and emotions of the Irish people. He received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1990.
Seamus Heaney Bio and Cross Links
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Linda Hogan
1994 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Donald Justice
1996 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Richard Kenney
1994 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Li-Young Lee
1995 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. He and his family fled to the United States in 1964 from Indonesia, where his father was a political prisoner.
Mr. Lee has written two books of poetry, Rose and The City in Which I Love You, and a memoir, The Winged Seed.
Li-Young Lee Bio and Cross Links
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Denise Levertov
1993 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Peter Levitt
1989 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Derek Mahon
1990 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Susan Mitchell
1992 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Herbert Morris
1991 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
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Herbert Morris
2000 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Sineád Morrissey
2007 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
Sineád Morrissey was born in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1972, grew up in Belfast, and holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. She has published three collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), and The State of the Prisons (2005). Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award, and the Michael Hartnett Prize for Poetry. She has twice been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast.
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Naomi Shihab Nye
2002 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, essayist and children’s author. She was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her experiences traveling in many parts of the world including Asia and the Middle East, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity.
Naomi Shihab Nye Bio and Cross Links
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Dennis O'Driscoll
1999 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Dennis O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s most widely published and respected critics of poetry, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being Exemplary Damages. He has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and the Harvard Review. O’Driscoll, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1999, was a featured author for Readings & Conversations in 2001 and 2003.
Dennis O'Driscoll Bio and Cross Links
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