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Michael Collier (3) (1953–)

Author of The Ledge: Poems

For other authors named Michael Collier, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Michael Collier is the author of seven collections of poetry, including An Individual History, a finalist for the Poets' Prize, and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University show more of Maryland. show less

Works by Michael Collier

Associated Works

The Best American Poetry 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 172 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 132 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 120 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 111 copies, 1 review
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008) — Contributor — 27 copies, 1 review

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Birthdate
1953
Gender
male
Education
Santa Clara University
Connecticut College
University of Arizona (MA, Creative Writing)
Occupations
poet
teacher
editor
translator
Organizations
University of Maryland
Fine Arts Work Center
George Mason University
Trinity College
Awards and honors
Poet Laureate of Maryland (2001-2004)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Short biography
[from University of Maryland website]
Michael Collier is the author of eight books of poems: The Clasp and Other Poems; The Folded Heart; The Neighbor; The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Dark Wild Realm, An Individual History, My Bishop and Other Poems, and The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems. He is also co-editor, with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, of A William Maxwell Portrait. His translation of Euripides's Medea appeared in 2006 and a collection of essays, Make Us Wave Back, in 2007. Collier has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences from 1994-2017 and Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, he is an emeritus professor of English. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Places of residence
Catonsville, Maryland, USA
Cornwall, Vermont, USA
Associated Place (for map)
USA

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3 reviews
I suppose that any anthology of contemporary poetry is going to be uneven in quality, but I think this one suffers from pedestrian poetry more than others. There are some interesting poems, but very few "new" discoveries (for me), and so that made the volume disappointing.
I was not as enthused over the selections as I'd hoped to be. Will reread. Maybe I will change my mind.

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Rating
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Reviews
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