Michael Ryan (poet)
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Michael Ryan (born 1946) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.
He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing.
His New and Selected Poems was published by Houghton Mifflin and won the 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His work has also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, among many other distinctions, and his poems and essays have appeared regularly in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and many other magazines and anthologies over the last 35 years.
[edit] Selected Publications
- New And Selected Poems. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- Baby B [memoir]. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
- A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing [essays]. (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
- Secret Life [autobiography]. (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback, 1996)
- God Hunger [poems]. (Viking Penguin, 1989; paperback, 1990)
- In Winter [poems]. (Holt, 1981)
- Threats Instead of Trees [poems]. (Yale University Press, 1974)
