Lawrence Raab

Lawrence Raab. Courtesy Poems Out Loud.

Lawrence Raab
Born	Template:Birth year and age Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Known for	American poetry

Lawrence Raab (born 1946) is an American poet and academic.

Life

Raab was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1968, and from Syracuse University with an M.A. in 1972.

He has taught at American University (1970-71), the University of Michigan, and since 1976 at Williams College in Williamstown, Maryland. He is the Harry C. Payne professor of poetry at Williams.

His poetry has been anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Poetry (3rd edition, 1983); The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by Charles Simic, Collier, 1992; The Best American Poetry 1993 edited by Louise Gluck; A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz; and The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by Rita Dove. In addition, his work has appeared in The New Yorker and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Recognition

• 1992 National Poetry Series, for What we don't know about each other
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications

Poetry

• Mysteries of the Horizon. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
• The Collector of Cold Weather. New York: Ecco Press, 1976.
• Other Children: Poems. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986.
• What We Don’t Know about Each Other. New York: Penguin, 1993.
• Winter at the Caspian Sea (With Stephen Dunn). Aiken, SC: Palanquin Press , 1999. x
• The Probable World. New York: Penguin, 2000.
• Visible Signs: New and selected poems. New York: Penguin, 2003.
• The History of Forgetting]. New York: Penguin, 2009.
• A Cup of Water Turns into a Rose. Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 2012.
• Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts. North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2015.

The Collected Poets Series Lawrence Raab, April 1, 2010 (Part 1)

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "Why it Often Rains in the Movies" at the Academy of American Poets
• Lawrence Raab in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2003: "Camouflage", ""Saint George’s Dragon"
• Lawrence Raab at the Poetry Foundation

Audio / Video

• Audio: Lawrence Raab reads Two Riddles at Poems Out Loud
• Lawrence Raab at YouTube
• Lawrence Raab at the Writer's Almanac

Books

• Lawrence Raab at Amazon.com

About

• Larry Raab at Williams College
• A series of correspondence between poet Lawrence Raab and novelist Jonathan Baumbach for InDigest