Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award 2009 Judge
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Marianne Boruch has published six books of poetry, most recently Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008) and Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004) as well as two essay collections, In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations (Trinity, 2005) and Poetry’s Old Air (Michigan, 1995). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, and The Yale Review. Her poems and prose have been included in collections such as Poets of the New Century and American Alphabets. Marianne was a Guggenheim Fellow for the 2005-2006 year and has won prizes including the Pushcart, the Terence De Pres Award; residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Anderson Center, Ragdale and Hall Farm; and poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served as Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale, our most isolated National Park. For two decades she has taught in the graduate program at Purdue University where she received the College of Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Award in 2007. Since 1988, she also has taught semi-regularly in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. |
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