Robert Wrigley Book Award
Name:
Robert Wrigley Book Award
Date:
February 15, 2014
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Website:
http://www.bookpeopleofmoscow.com
Event Description:
Please join us in honoring Robert Wrigley with the PNBA Book Award for The Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems.
Robert Wrigley was born in 1951, in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up not far away in Collinsville, a coal mining town. He was the first member of his family ever to graduate from college and the first male in many generations--in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wales, and Germany--never to work in a coal mine.
Wrigley attended Southern Illinois University and the University of Montana, where he studied with the late Richard Hugo, and with Madeline DeFrees, and John Haines. It was in Montana that he developed an abiding love for the western wilderness. Since 1977 he has lived in Idaho, teaching first at Lewis-Clark State College, in Lewiston, and since 1999, at the University of Idaho, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing. He has also taught at the University of Oregon, where he served as acting director of the MFA program, and twice at the University of Montana, where he returned to hold the Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry.
He has published eight books of poetry: The Sinking of Clay City (Copper Canyon Press, 1979); Moon In a Mason Jar (University of Illinois, 1986); What My Father Believed (Illinois, 1991); In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995); Reign of Snakes (Penguin, 1999); Lives of the Animals (Penguin, 2003); Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006); and most recently, Beautiful Country (Penguin, 2010). Wrigley’s poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and literary journals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry.
He lives with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes, in the woods, near Moscow, Idaho.
Robert Wrigley was born in 1951, in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up not far away in Collinsville, a coal mining town. He was the first member of his family ever to graduate from college and the first male in many generations--in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wales, and Germany--never to work in a coal mine.
Wrigley attended Southern Illinois University and the University of Montana, where he studied with the late Richard Hugo, and with Madeline DeFrees, and John Haines. It was in Montana that he developed an abiding love for the western wilderness. Since 1977 he has lived in Idaho, teaching first at Lewis-Clark State College, in Lewiston, and since 1999, at the University of Idaho, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing. He has also taught at the University of Oregon, where he served as acting director of the MFA program, and twice at the University of Montana, where he returned to hold the Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry.
He has published eight books of poetry: The Sinking of Clay City (Copper Canyon Press, 1979); Moon In a Mason Jar (University of Illinois, 1986); What My Father Believed (Illinois, 1991); In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995); Reign of Snakes (Penguin, 1999); Lives of the Animals (Penguin, 2003); Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006); and most recently, Beautiful Country (Penguin, 2010). Wrigley’s poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and literary journals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry.
He lives with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes, in the woods, near Moscow, Idaho.
