Gary Young (poet)

Gary Young
Gary at Washington Square in 2009
Born	1951 (age 73–74)
Occupation	Poet, printer, book artist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California Santa Cruz University of California, Irvine
Genre	Poetry
Children	2

Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. ^[1]

Life

He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A. ^[2]

His work has appeared in Poetry, Antaeus, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Montserrat Review, ^[3] ZYZZYVA. ^[4] .

In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts.

His archive is held at Brown University. ^[5]

He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, ^[6] and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, ^[7] with his wife and two sons.

In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology through Lynx House Press.

Awards

• 2009 Shelley Memorial Award ^{[8] [9]}
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• the Vogelstein Foundation
• George Bogin Memorial Award
• the California Arts Council
• two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts ^[10]
• Pushcart Prize
• James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral Life
• William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, No Other Life
• Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds
• first poet laureate, City of [Santa Cruz], CA
• 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America
• 2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award for That's What I Thought

Works

Poetry

• Hands: Poems. Illuminati. 1979. ISBN   978-0-89807-005-7.
• The Dream of a Moral Life . Copper Beech Press. 1990. ISBN   978-0-914278-56-6.
• Days: Poems. Silverfish Review Press. 1997. ISBN   978-1-878851-08-6.
• Braver Deeds: Poems. Gibbs Smith. 1999. ISBN   978-0-87905-866-1.
• No Harm Done: Poems and Woodcuts. Sutton Hoo Press. 2004.
• No Other Life. Heyday Books. 2005. ISBN   978-1-59714-004-1.
• Pleasure. Heyday Books. 2006. ISBN   978-1-59714-023-2.
• New and Selected Poems, White Pine Press.
• Adversary. Miramar Editions. 2017.
• That's What I Thought: Poems. Persea Books. 2018. ISBN   978-0-89255-494-2.

Editor

• The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place . Heyday Books. 1999. ISBN   978-1-890771-19-5.
• Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions. 2008. ISBN   978-0-9655239-4-3.

References

1. "Gary Young named county's first ever poet laureate - Santa Cruz Sentinel". www.santacruzsentinel.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010.
2. "Faculty Biographies". Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
3. Contributors Montserrat Review
4. "Poetry from Zyzzyva". Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
5. "Brown University Library / Hay".
6. "UC Santa Cruz - Literature - Directory - Gary Young". Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
7. "Gary Young". May 28, 1981.
8. Alison Flood (March 12, 2009). "'Genius and need' wins prose poet Gary Young Shelley Memorial award". Guardian.
9. "UC Santa Cruz lecturer receives prestigious national poetry award". Archived from the original on April 2, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
10. "2003 GRANT AWARDS - Literature Fellowships (Poetry)". Archived from the original on July 11, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "An Interview with Gary Young", Poetry Santa Cruz
• Ruiz, Zoë (February 19, 2010). "The Rumpus Interview with Gary Young". The Rumpus. Retrieved April 5, 2013.