Ralph Angel in 2008. Photo by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Licensed via Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
| Ralph Angel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Occupation | Professor of English and creative writing, University of Redlands |
| Notable work(s) | Exceptions and Melancholies |
| Notable award(s) | 2007 PEN USA Literary Award |
Ralph Angel (born 1951) is an American poet and translator.
Life
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Youth and educationEdit
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.[1]
CareerEdit
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.[2]
RecognitionEdit
- 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[2]
PublicationsEdit
PoetryEdit
- History. San Diego, CA: Anxious Press, 1982.
- Anxious Latitudes. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986.
- Neither World: Poems. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 1995.
- Twice Removed: Poems. Louisville, KY: Sarabande, 2001.
- Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems, 1986-2006. Louisville, KY: Sarabande, 2006.
- Your Moon. Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues / Western Michigan University, 2014.
TranslatedEdit
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Poem of the Deep Song. Louisville, KY: Sarabande, 2006.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See alsoEdit
Ralph Angel reads Untitled at AWP Conference for American Hybrid reading
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "PIP Biographies: Ralph Angel (USA) 1951", Green Integer. Web, Jan. 21, 2006.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [1] Web page titled "Ralph Angel" at the Poetry Magazine Web site
- ↑ Search results = au:Ralph Angel, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 19, 2014.
External linksEdit
- Ralph Angel profile & poem at the PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog
- Ralph Angel profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Ralph Angel b. 1951 at the Poetry Foundation
- Books
- Ralph Angel at Amazon.com
- About
- Ralph Angel biography at Green Integer.
- Review of Twice Removed by Ethan Paquin in Jacket
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