John Engels

John Engels (January 19, 1931 South Bend, Indiana - June 13, 2007 Vermont) was an American poet.

Life

John Engels graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1952. After Navy service, Engels studied at the University College, Dublin, then graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an M.F.A. in 1957. He taught at St. Norbert College, and Saint Michael's College, Sweet Briar College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Middlebury College, and Emory University, and the University of Alabama. In 1995, he was Wyndham Robertson Chair at Hollins College.

Engels' work appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and many other prestigious journals.

Awards

• 1976 Frost Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference
• 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1986 National Poetry Series, for Cardinals in the Ice Age
• 1988 Poet in residence at The Frost Place

Works

• "Adam After the Ice Storm", Poetry Foundation
• "Love Poem--Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named", Ploughshares, Spring 1977
• The Homer Mitchell place: poems. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1968.
• Blood Mountain. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-8229-3289-5.
• Weather-fear: new and selected poems, 1958-1982. University of Georgia Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-8203-0654-4.
• Cardinals in the Ice Age: poems. Graywolf Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-915308-91-0.
• Big water: poems. Globe Pequot. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55821-358-6.
• Sinking creek: poems. Globe Pequot. 1998. ISBN 978-1-55821-638-9.
• House and garden. University of Notre Dame Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-268-03056-8.
• Recounting the seasons: poems, 1958-2005. University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-268-02770-4.