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Michael Ryan. Courtesy Poem-a-Day.
Michael Ryan (born 1946) is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
Ryan was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and Claremont Graduate School, and earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.[1]
Ryan has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[2] He was fired from Princeton University for propositioning and sleeping with multiple students, acts which he later attributed (in his autobiography, A Secret Life) to sex addiction.[3]
Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) since 1990.[2] He is the director of the M.F.A. program at UCI.
He is a contributing editor of the Alaska Quarterly Review. His work has appeared regularly in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker,[4] and Poetry.[5]
He lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.[6]
Recognition[]
- 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- Whiting Writers Award
- 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship[7]
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Award
- 1980 National Poetry Series
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Threats Instead of Trees. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974.
- In Winter. New York: Holt. Rinehart, & Winston, 1981.
- God Hunger: Poems. New York: Viking, 1989.
- New And Selected Poems. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- This Morning: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Non-fiction[]
- Secret Life: An autobiography. New York: Pantheon, 1995.
- A Difficult Grace: On poets, poetry, and writing (essays). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
- Baby B (memoir). St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.
Poetry@Tech Michael Ryan - Part 1
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[8]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Michael Ryan b. 1946, Poetry Foundation, Web, Nov. 23, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Ryan, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, UCI.edu, University of California. Web, Nov. 23, 2012.
- ↑ Steve Emmons, A Secret Life : In his new book, poet and professor Michael Ryan leads us down the dark path of his sexaddiction . . . and back. Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1995. Web, Nov. 23, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/michael_ryan/search?contributorName=michael%20ryan
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5916
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/388
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/12740-michael-ryan
- ↑ Search results = au:Michael Ryan 1946, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 20, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Insult," The New Yorker, November 5, 2007
- "Airplane Food". Threepenny Review. Winter 2005. http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/ryanmichael_w05.html.
- "Bunny" at poetry dispatch
- Michael Ryan 3 poems at Poetry Out Loud
- Michael Ryan profile & 7 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Michael Ryan b. 1946, at the Poetry Foundation
- Michael Ryan at Slate
- "Outside" at How a Poem Happens
- Audio / video
- About
- Peter Harris (Summer 1991). "Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi". Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1991/summer/harris-hunger-hope/.
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