Marianne Boruch

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Marianne Boruch is an American poet.

In 1987, she developed and then until 2005 directed the graduate program in creative writing at Purdue University, where she still teaches. She is also a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA, 1979).

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Boruch is the author of several poetry collections, including:

Moss Burning (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
A Stick That Breaks and Breaks (Oberlin College Press, 1997)
Descendant (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1989)
View from the Gazebo (Wesleyaan Univ. Press, 1985)
Poems: New & Selected (Oberlin College Press, 2004)

She is also the author of two books of essays:

In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity Univ. Press, 2005)
Poetry's Old Air (Poets on Poetry Series, Univ. of Michgan Press, 1995)

Her work has also appeared in such places as The New Yorker, The Nation, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, FIELD, Best American Poetry 1997, Poetry 180, Poets of the New Century, Poets Reading: The FIELD Symposia, and Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Poets, and Poets Reading Poets.