N/A
Silver Spring,
MD
20902
Phone:
(301) 681-8956
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Publications and Prizes
Books:
Boy Drinkers
(Hanging Loose Press, 2007)
, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (Hanging Loose Press, 2011)
, Irish Musicians/American Friends (Coffee House Press, 1986)
, Lit from Below (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2013)
, That Special Place: New World Irish Stories (Hanging Loose Press, 2004)
, The Drift of Things (The Figures Press, 2001)
, The Great Indoors (Story Line Press, 1995)
, This Way Out (Hanging Loose Press, 2014)
Anthologies:
Best American Poetry
(Scribner, 2010)
, Best American Poetry 1997 (Scribner, 1998)
, Best American Poetry 2003 (Scribner, 2003)
, Best American Poetry 2006 (Scribner, 2006)
, From Totems to Hip-Hop (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003)
, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003)
, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)
, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website (Sourcebooks, 2003)
, The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Journals:
Agni, American Poetry Review, Conduit, Court Green, New American Writing, New Republic, Paris Review, Pleiades, Smartish Pace, The New York Quarterly, Verse
Prizes Won:
>Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Writing, 2009;
>Maryland State Arts Council poetry grant, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003;
>Fund for Poetry award, 1999;
>Columbia Book Award for The Great Indoors, 1996.
>Named one of the “Top 100 Irish Americans” by Irish America magazine, 1992;
>National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1992;
>American Book Award for Irish Musicians/American Friends, 1986;
>Writing grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1979, 1989, 1990, 1992.
>INDIE award in the Celtic music category for The Light of Other Days, 1989;
>Fellowship to Yaddo artist colony, 1975;
>Artist-in-Residence, Corcoran College of Art, 1975;
>NDEA Doctoral Fellowship, Fordham University 1967–71.
More Information
Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
Irish American
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Last updated: May 24, 2014