Brigit Pegeen Kelly
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Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951) is an award-winning American poet. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and is married to the poet, Michael Madonick. She is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been included in five volumes of the Pushcart Prize Anthology and six volumes of The Best American Poetry.
[edit] Awards
- 2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- 2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist
- 2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
- 2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
- 2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1999: Academy of Arts and Letters' Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
- 1996: Whiting Writers' Award
- 1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
- 1994: Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Prize (now named the James Laughlin Award)
- 1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
- 1986: Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize
[edit] Books
- 2004: The Orchard. BOA Editions.
- 1995: Song. BOA Editions.
- 1987: To the Place of Trumpets. Yale University Press.
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