Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951 Palo Alto, California) is an award-winning American poet.^[1]

Life

She is married to Michael Madonick, a poet and fiction writer.

She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College.^[2] She is a professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[3][4]

Awards

• 2008: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
• 2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1999: American Academy of Arts and Letters Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
• 1996: Whiting Writers' Award
• 1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
• 1994: Lamont Poetry Prize (for Song)
• 1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
• 1986: Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize

Books

• Poems: Song and the Orchard. Carcanet. 2008. ISBN 978-1-85754-979-9. 
• The Orchard. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2004. ISBN 978-1-929918-48-5. 
• Song. BOA Editions, Ltd. 1995. ISBN 978-1-880238-13-4. 
• To the Place of Trumpets. Yale University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-300-04150-7. 

Chapbooks

• Iskandariya. Illustrator Briony Morrow-Cribbs. 2007. 
• Black swan. Harold Kyle. 2005. 
• Mt. Angel. University of Oregon. 1983. 

Anthologies

• Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, ed. (1999). "The Garden of the Trumpet Tree". The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1. 
• Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, ed. (2001). "Song". The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11962-7. 
• Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, ed. (2001). "Black Swann". Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-177-9. 
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-35-2. 
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2004). The Pushcart Prize XXIX 2005: Best of the Small Presses. W. W. Norton & Company Limited. ISBN 978-1-888889-39-0. 
• Paul Muldoon, David Lehman, ed. (2008). "The Wolf". The best American poetry, 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1. 

References

External links

• Academy of American Poets Biography
• Literary Agent site
• BOA Editions Biography
• The Orchard reviewed in Double Room