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Name
  
John Nims


Role
  
Poet

John Frederick Nims httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

Died
  
January 13, 1999, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nominations
  
Books
  
Western wind, The iron pastoral, The six‑cornered snowflak, The powers of heaven a, Selected poems

love poem by john frederick nims read by tom o bedlam


John Frederick Nims (November 20, 1913 Muskegon, Michigan – January 13, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American poet and academic.

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John Frederick Nims httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

John frederick nims love poem


Life

He graduated from DePaul University, University of Notre Dame with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1945. He published reviews of the works by Robert Lowell and W. S. Merwin. He taught English at Harvard University, the University of Florence, the University of Toronto, Williams College, University of Missouri, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He was editor of Poetry magazine from 1978 to 1984.

The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, for poetry translation, is awarded by the Poetry Foundation.

Awards

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters grant
  • National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities grant
  • Institute of the Humanities fellowship
  • 1982 Academy of American Poets fellowship
  • 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1991 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
  • 1993 O.B. Hardison Prize
  • References

    John Frederick Nims Wikipedia


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