Brendan Galvin
Brendan James Galvin is an American poet. His book, Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965-2005, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award.[1]
Life
During forty years of college teaching, he served as Wyndham Robertson Visiting Writer in Residence in the MA program at Hollins University, Coal Royalty Distinguished Writer in Residence in the MFA program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and Whichard chair in the Humanities at East Carolina University.[2][3]
He lives with his wife, Ellen, in Truro, Massachusetts. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998.[4]
Awards
His narrative poem Hotel Malabar, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1998). His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation (England), and Poetry’s Levinson Prize, the OB Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum.
Works
- "Ars Poetica: The Foxes". The New Yorker. January 2010.
- "Horse of Chernobyl, Horse of Lascaux". The Courtland Review. November 2007.
- "The Mice". The Atlantic. August 2007.
- "ROY OLAFSEN, CAPE COD CRAFTSPERSON, TELLS ALL". Swink. 2007. Archived from the original on 2004-06-20. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- "Oyster Money (Winter 2006-7)". Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 4 November 2007.
- "Carolina Déjá Vu". Laurel Review. 2005.
- "Reading My Poems of Forty Years Ago; Furnishing Heaven; Yellow Shoe Poet". The Courtland Review; November 1999.
- "Rural Mailbox". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. Archived from the original on August 29, 2007.
- "Beachplums". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. Archived from the original on August 29, 2007.
- "Midden". Southern Review.
- "The March Observances". terrain.org.
Books
- Ocean Effects, Louisiana State University Press, 2007
- The Strength of a Named Thing, Louisiana State University Press
- Sky and Island Light, Louisiana State University Press
- Place keepers. LSU Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8071-2892-3.
- Galvin, Brendan (April 2005). Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965-2005. ISBN 978-0-8071-3047-6.
Reviews
Galvin is a poet who has published much but not too much; that is, many of the poems here are as fresh and powerful as the poems in such strong earlier collections as Atlantic Flyway, Seals in the Inner Harbor, and Winter Oysters. While Galvin continues to work the same material, he manages to make it new.[5]
References
- ^ "Brendan Galvin, 2005 NBA Poetry Finalist, National Book Foundation". nationalbook.org. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ^ "Interview with Brendan Galvin". ecu.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ^ "Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Fall 2002". ecu.edu. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ RUSS KESLER. "RHYTHMS OF EXPERIENCE: BRENDAN GALVIN'S OCEAN EFFECTS". VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW; Fall/Winter 2008-2009.
