Ralph Angel

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Ralph Angel (born 1951) is an American poet and translator. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Angel attended inner-city public schools there, then worked on freight trains for the Union Pacific Railroad as he earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Washington. Later he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.[1]

He is an Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Angel also was the featured poet of the Spring 2005 issue of Poetry Magazine.[2]

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[edit] Books

  • 1986 — Anxious Latitudes (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press)
  • 1995 — Neither World (Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press), winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets
  • 2001 — Twice Removed, (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books), nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards
  • 2006 Translator of Federico Garcia Lorca, Poem of the Deep Song, winner of the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize
  • 2006 — Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books)

[edit] Awards and honors

  • 2007 PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry for "Exceptions and Melancholies"
  • Pushcart Prize
  • An award from the Fulbright Foundation
  • An award from The Modern Poetry Association
  • A gift from the Elgin Cox Trust
  • His "Shadow Play" (which originally appeared in Poetry) was included in The Best American Poetry 1988
  • Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, 2003[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1]Green Integer Web site, Web page titled "PIP Biographies: Ralph Angel: 1951", accessed January 21, 2006
  2. ^ a b [2]Web page titled "Ralph Angel" at the Poetry Magazine Web site

[edit] External links

  • [3]Biographical sketch at Poets.org Web site of the Academy of American Poets
Poetry online
  • [4] At Poetry magazine Web site:
  • "Breaking and Entering"
  • "In Every Direction"
  • "It takes a while to disappear"
  • "Man in a Window"
  • "Tiny"
Reviews