Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California in 1951. She was a poet whose books included To the Place of Trumpets; Song, which won the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets; and The Orchard. She received several awards including a Discovery/the Nation Award, the Yale show more Younger Poets Prize, and a Whiting Writers Award as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. During her lifetime, she taught at the University of California-Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She died in October 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Song (1995) 156 copies, 3 reviews

The Orchard (2004) 80 copies, 1 review

To the Place of the Trumpets (1988) 29 copies, 1 review

Poems: Song and the Orchard (2008) 9 copies

Iskandariya 1 copy

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The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 186 copies

The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Contributor — 184 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 183 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 169 copies

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 168 copies

The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 138 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 132 copies, 4 reviews

Leadbelly: Poems (2005) — Editor — 101 copies, 2 reviews

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 69 copies, 1 review

2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Contributor — 39 copies

The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 38 copies

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review

When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (2008) — Contributor — 15 copies

Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributor — 15 copies

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Birthdate: 1951
Gender: female
Occupations: professor (English)
Awards and honors: Whiting Writers' Award (1996)
Places of residence: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Associated Place (for map): Illinois, USA

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liannecollins 242 reviews

Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

This collection leaves me enchanted and unsettled in the very best way. How to weave magic out of things I think about so often, whether I want to or not (birds, flowers, god, corpses, dreams). I have so much to learn.

Jun 10, 20222 other reviews

wordlikeabell 157 reviews

Song (American Poets Continuum) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

My favorite overtly humanist poems. They make me want to believe in believing. They so carefully, so thoughtfully chart the process of trying to believe in believing. Lovely, heartbreaking, rigorous poems.

Dec 8, 20082 other reviews

tsinandali 60 reviews

Song (American Poets Continuum) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

An astounding collection of poems. I hear Kelly read at Purdue University before these came out and was nailed to my seat during the reading of all of the poems that ended up in this volume, including the title poem. A vital poet and someone I anxiously await further volumes from.

Oct 29, 20052 other reviews

porian 48 reviews

The Orchard (American Poets Continuum) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly