Marianne Boruch

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Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at Purdue University and was its director until 2005. She has taught there since 1987 as well as at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

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Boruch is the author of several poetry collections, including:

Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan University Press, 2008)
Ghost and Oar (chapbook: Red Dragonfly Press, 2007)
Poems: New & Selected (Oberlin College Press, 2004)
A Stick That Breaks and Breaks (Oberlin College Press, 1997)
Moss Burning (Oberlin College Press, 1993)
Descendant (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1989)
View from the Gazebo (Wesleyaan Univ. Press, 1985)

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 Michigan 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, Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Poets, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, and 'Poets Reading Poets.