Michael McGriff

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Name Michael McGriff Role Poet		Education University of Oregon

Awards Lannan Literary Fellowship Books Our Secret Life in the Movies, Home Burial, Dismantling the hills, Choke

Michael mcgriff

Michael McGriff (born Coos Bay, Oregon) is an American poet.

Michael mcgriff reading mercy tear it down

Life

McGriff was raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI, The Believer, Missouri Review, and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.

McGriff's most recent book of poetry, Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest.

McGriff currently teaches at the University of Idaho.

Awards

Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University

Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation

Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin

2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for Dismantling the Hills

2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship

2013 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University

Works

"Year of the Rat", Courtland Review, Spring 2009

Choke. Traprock Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9767411-2-1.

Dismantling the Hills. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8229-6007-2.

Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)

Anthologies

Larry Smith, ed. (2005). Family matters: poems of our families. Bottom Dog Press. ISBN 978-0-933087-95-8.

Translation

"From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007

"Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007

Tomas Tranströmer (2009). The Sorrow Gondola. Translator Michael McGriff. Green Integer. ISBN 978-1-933382-44-9.

References

Michael McGriff Wikipedia

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