Michael McGriff
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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.
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
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- Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University[6]
- Ruth Lilly Fellowship[7] from The Poetry Foundation
- Michener Fellowship[8] 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
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- Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
- Black Postcards (Willow Springs Books, 2017)
- Early Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
- Eternal Sentences (The University of Arkansas Press, 2021)
- Angel Sharpening Its Beak (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, 2025)
Anthology
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Translation
- "From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
- "Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
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References
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- ↑ https://michener.utexas.edu
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External links
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