Kay Ryan
Auteur de The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
A propos de l'auteur
Kay Ryan is a poet and educator. Born in San Jose, California, she received bachelors and masters degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first collection, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, was privately published in 1983. Ryan found a commercial publisher for her second collection, afficher plus Strangely Marked Metal, but her work went nearly unrecognized until the mid 1990s, when some of her poems were anthologized and the first reviews appeared in national journals. She received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2004, and published her sixth collection of poetry, The Niagara River. Ryan's other awards include the 2001 Maurice English Poetry Award, a fellowship in 2001 from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her poems have been included in three Pushcart Prize anthologies and have been selected four times for The Best American Poetry. Ryan's collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award. She was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this collection. Ryan was named the 16th Library of Congress Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and served 2 terms from 2008 to 2010. She currently serves as one of Chancellors of The Academy of American Poets. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Kay Ryan
Spiderweb 2 exemplaires
Tune 1 exemplaire
Ryan, Kay Archive 1 exemplaire
When the River Runs Hot 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 756 exemplaires
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributeur — 152 exemplaires
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ryan, Kay
- Date de naissance
- 1945-09-21
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- San Jose, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Jose, California, USA (birth)
Fairfax, California, USA - Études
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Professions
- teacher
- Organisations
- College of Marin
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Prix et distinctions
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2004)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2008-2010)
National Humanities Medal (2012)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 880
- Popularité
- #29,101
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 29
- ISBN
- 25
- Favoris
- 4