Robert Morgan (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
He studied at North Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State University
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as an engineering and mathematics major, and University of North Carolina Greensboro.
He teaches at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
beginning in 1971.
Awards
- Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize
Poetry
- "OPTION", The Atlantic, October 1997
- "Wind From a Waterfall", The Atlantic, September 1999
- "Girdling", The Atlantic, December 1997
- "Holy Cussing", Southern Poetry Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2004
- "Mountain Dulcimer", Poetry, March 1999
- Zirconia Poems. Northwood Narrows, New Hampshire: Lillabulero Press, 1969.
- Red Owl. New York: Norton, 1972.
- Trunk & Thicket. Fort Collins, Colorado: L’Epervier Press, 1978.
- Groundwork. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1979.
- Bronze Age. Emory, Virginia: Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
- At the Edge of the Orchard Country. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
- Green River: New and Selected Poems. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991.
- Wild Peavines: New Poems. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1996.
Short stories
- "The Distant Blue Hills," The Southern Review.
- The Mountains Won’t Remember Us and Other Stories. Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, 1992.
Non-fiction
- Boone: A Biography, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007, ISBN 978-1565126152
- Lions of the West - Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, Shannon Ravenel Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1565126268
Essays
- Good Measure: Essays, Interviews and Notes on Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.