Michael McGriff

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Michael McGriff
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McGriff at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Born Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Notable awards Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (2007)

Michael McGriff is an American poet.

Life

McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI, [1] The Believer, Missouri Review, [2] and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, [3] a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.

Contents

McGriff's book Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest. His most recent book of poetry, Early Hour, is a book length sequence inspired by German Expressionist Karl Hofer's 1935 painting (Fruhe Stunde [4] ) of the same name.

McGriff currently teaches creative writing [5] at the University of Idaho.

Awards

Works

Anthology

Translation

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References

  1. ↑ "AGNI Online: Author Michael McGriff". Bu.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "TMR: Michael McGriff". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
  3. ↑ "Tavern Books". Tavernbooks.com. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Frühe Stunde (Early Hour)". Portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "M.F.A. Creative Writing".
  6. ↑ "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  7. ↑ "Foundation Awards". 29 September 2021.
  8. ↑ https://michener.utexas.edu
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