![]() ![]() With Mark Jarman, he is co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. Chapbooks include Small Elegies and Land Without Grief. His two prize-winning collections of poems are The Buried Houses and The Country I Remember, both from Story Line Press. He received his doctorate from The University of Rochester. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at Moorhead State University, and he has since joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Colorado College. In 1982, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets in 1986, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 1991, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington and has lived in Colorado, Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania and Greece. ![]() Several times on the staff of Poetry (Chicago), he was its editor from 1978 to 1984. John of the Cross, and The Complete Poems of Michelangelo and edited The Harper Anthology of Poetry. He has also published several books of translations, including Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation, The Poems of St. He has been the Phi Beta Kappa poet at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University. He is the author of eight books of poetry among them, The Iron Pastoral, Knowledge of the Evening (a National Book Award nominee), The Kiss: A Jambalaya, Zany in Denim, andThe Six Cornered Snowflake-books that have brought him awards from The National Foundation of Arts and Humanities, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Brandeis University, which awarded him its Creative Arts Citation in Poetry. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Florence and Madrid and has been on the staff of many writers’ conferences, including the one at Bread Loaf, Vermont, where he taught for more than ten years. He has taught poetry and given workshops in poetry at Notre Dame, the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois at Urbana, Harvard University, Willialms College, the University of Florida, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. Born in Muskegon, Michigan, John Frederick Nims received his M.A. ![]()
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