Ralph Angel



Ralph Angel (born 1951) is an American poet and translator.

Life
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.

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.

Recognition

 * 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 Translation Prize, 2003

Publications

 * 1986 &mdash; Anxious Latitudes (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press)
 * 1995 &mdash; Neither World (Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press), winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets
 * 2001 &mdash; 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 &mdash; Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books)