Maurice Manning (Poet)

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Maurice Manning (born 1966 in Kentucky) is an American writer. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin.

Maurice Manning attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He was formerly a professor at DePauw University and now teaches in the Creative Writing MFA department at Indiana Universityand is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Along with Wendell Berry, Silas House, Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, and Anne Shelby, Manning has among the core group of Kentucky writers who have been increasingly active in the fight against mountaintop removal mining, appearing at rallys and protests throughout the state.

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Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (2001)
A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c. (2004)
Bucolics (2007)