Campbell McGrath
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Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Pax Atomica.
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[edit] Life
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University's creative writing program in 1988, where he was classmates with Rick Moody. He currently lives in Miami, Florida, and teaches creative writing at Florida International University, where his students have included Richard Blanco. He is married to Elizabeth Lichtenstein, whom he met while he was an undergraduate; they have two sons.[1]
[edit] Writing
McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for The Bob Hope Poem in Spring Comes to Chicago, his third book of poems), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter-Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award."
[edit] Works
- Capitalism
- American Noise
- Spring Comes to Chicago
- Road Atlas
- Mangrovia (chapbook)
- Florida Poems
- Pax Atomica
- The Prose Poem
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7916 Ploughshares profile
[edit] External links
- "Historian, comedian, storyteller:a conversation with poet Campbell McGrath," Lyn Millner, Florida International University Magazine, Fall 1999 issue.
- Interview in MIPOesias
- Bio and notes on articles in Ploughshares
- Excerpt from Pax Atomica at Harper Collins
- Poetry Daily interview
- University of Chicago Magazine profile
