Michael McGriff

Michael McGriff (born Coos Bay, Oregon) is an American poet.

Life

McGriff was raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI,^[1] The Believer, Missouri Review,^[2] and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books,^[3] a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.

McGriff's most recent book of poetry, Home Burial^[4] (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest.

McGriff currently teaches at Stanford University.^[5]

Awards

• Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
• Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation
• Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin
• 2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for Dismantling the Hills
• 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
• 2013 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University

Works

• "Year of the Rat", Courtland Review, Spring 2009

• Choke. Traprock Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9767411-2-1. 
• Dismantling the Hills. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8229-6007-2. 
• Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)

Anthologies

• Larry Smith, ed. (2005). Family matters: poems of our families. Bottom Dog Press. ISBN 978-0-933087-95-8. 

Translation

• "From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
• "Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
• Tomas Tranströmer (2009). The Sorrow Gondola. Translator Michael McGriff. Green Integer. ISBN 978-1-933382-44-9. 

References

External links

• "Michael McGriff Q&A recommends two poets", Fishouse