Michael Collier (3) (1953–)
Author of The Ledge: Poems
For other authors named Michael Collier, see the disambiguation page.
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
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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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The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Bread Loaf Anthology) by Michael Collier
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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