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Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969) is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist.

Life[]

Prufer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.A. at Wesleyan University and an M.A. at the Hollins University Writing Program, and then went on to earn an M.F.A. at Washington University in St. Louis.

He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including American Book Review, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Shenandoah, Field, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Kenyon Review,[1] Boston Review, Georgia Review, and in The Best American Poetry (2003 & 2009).

He is a professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and Editor-at-Large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing,[2] Associate Editor of American Book Review,[3] and the former Vice President/Secretary of the National Book Critics Circle.[4]

Prufer currently resides in Houston, Texas with artist and critic Mary Hallab.[1]

Recognition[]

His honors include 3 Pushcart Prizes, and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, the Lannan Foundation and other organizations. His first book, Strange Wood, received the 1997 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (formerly the Winthrop Prize).[5] Most recently he was awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry.[6]

Awards[]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Strange Wood. Rock Hill, SC: Winthrop, 1997;
  • The Finger Bone. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002.
  • Fallen from a Chariot. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005.
  • National Anthem: Poems. New York: Four Way Books, 2008.
  • In A Beautiful Country. New York: Four Way Books, 2011.
  • Churches. New York: Four Way Books, 2014.

Edited[]

  • The New Young American Poets: An anthology. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
  • Dark Horses: Poets on overlooked poems: An anthology (edited with Joy Katz). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
  • New European Poets (edited with Wayne Miller). St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2008.
  • Dunstan Thompson: On the life and work of a lost American master (edited with D.A. Powell). Pleiades Press, 2010.
  • Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American poets on the recent work of W.S. Merwin (edited with Jonathan Weinert). Seattle, WA: WordFarm, 2012.
  • Russell Atkins: On the life and work of an American master. Warrenburg, MO: Pleiades Press, 2013.
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Kevin Prufer at The Warehouse


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[8]

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Prufer, Kevin. "Kevin Prufer". http://www.kevinprufer.com/. Retrieved 2006-12-15. 
  2. ↑ "Editors". Pleiades & Pleiades Press. http://www.cmsu.edu/englphil/pleiades/editors.html. Retrieved 2006-12-15. 
  3. ↑ "American Book Review". LitLine. http://www.litline.org/ABR/about.html. Retrieved 2006-12-15. 
  4. ↑ "Board of Directors". National Book Critics Circle. http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=board. Retrieved 2006-12-15. 
  5. ↑ "Kevin D. Prufer". PoetryMagazine.com. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2001/October01/prufer.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-15. 
  6. ↑ "FY 2007 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships in Poetry". National Endowment for the Arts. http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/07grants/Lit.html. Retrieved 2006-12-20. 
  7. ↑ Strange Wood (paperback), Abe Books. Web, Nov. 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ Search results = au:Kevin Prufer, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 13, 2015.

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