Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (née Pepper; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She won the 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Jorie Graham | |
|---|---|
Jorie Graham, speaking at a poetry reading in 2007 | |
| Born | Jorie Pepper May 9, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | New York University (BFA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
| Occupation | poet |
| Spouses |
|
| Children | 1 |
| Parents |
|
| Website | joriegraham |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.