Angela Sorby
Angela Sorby is a poet, professor, and literary scholar.
Life
She was born in Seattle, Washington and teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature.[1]
Books
- Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998);
- Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005)
- Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
Articles
- "Raymond Carver’s Poetry and the Temperance Tradition," Raymond Carver Review 1:1 (Winter 2008): 19-32.
Literary Awards
- John Fiske Poetry Prize, University of Chicago
- Midwest Book Award
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry Lorine Niedecker Award
- Fulbright fellowship; an Honor Book Prize from the Children's Literature Association
- Discovery/The Nation Prize
References
External links
- Marquette University Faculty Page
- http://www.pw.org/content/angela_sorby_1
- http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4555.htm
- http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14654
- http://alh.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/3/508.extract