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Jorie Graham

(1950) Poet United States

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Jorie Graham is a poet from the United States, best known for The dream of the unified field: selected poems, 1974-1994.

Quick Facts About Jorie Graham

Born
May 9, 1950
Nationality
United States
Profession
Poet
Notable works
The dream of the unified field: selected poems, 1974-1994

About Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She won the 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship MacArthur Fellows Program Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Rome Prize International Nonino Prize Wallace Stevens Award

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