creative writing

Education

• MFA, University of Arizona, 1980
• BA, University of Minnesota, 1977

Research Interests

• Creative Writing
• Poetry
• Form and Theory of Poetry
• Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Select Publications

Recent Books

• For the Scribe (poetry), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017
• From the Valley of Making: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 2016
• World Tree (poetry), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011
• Interrogation Palace; New and Selected Poems: 1982-2004, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006
• Spirit Cabinet (poetry), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

Awards

• Library of Virginia Book Award for Poetry, 2018 (for For the Scribe)
• Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry, Academy of American Poets, 2011 (for World Tree)
• Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2007 (for Interrogation Palace)
• O.B Hardison Prize for Poetry, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007
• John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, 2003