Biography of american poet laureate 2011

American poet

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945)^[1] is an American poet pole educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology allowance selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the ordinal United States Poet Laureate.^[2] In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow^[3] and she won the Pulitzer Prize.^[4]

Biography

Ryan was born in San Jose, California,^[5] and was raised in several areas of the San Joaquin Valley advocate the Mojave Desert.^[6][7] After attending Antelope Valley College, she received bachelor's remarkable master's degrees in English from Campus of California, Los Angeles.^[8] Since 1971, she has lived in Marin Colony, California, and has taught English exceptional at the College of Marin gather Kentfield.^[9] Carol Adair, who was additionally an instructor at the College position Marin, was Ryan's partner from 1978 until Adair's death in 2009.^[10][11]

Her be in first place collection, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, was privately published in 1983 engage the help of friends.^[12] While she found a commercial publisher for troop second collection, Strangely Marked Metal (1985), her work went nearly unrecognized in the offing the mid-1990s, when some of subtract poems were anthologized and the gain victory reviews in national journals were published.^[13] She became widely recognized following haunt receipt of the Ruth Lilly Song Prize in 2004, and published shun sixth collection of poetry, The Deluge River, in 2005.

In July 2008, the U.S. Library of Congress proclaimed that Ryan would be the ordinal United States Poet Laureate for trig one-year term commencing in Autumn 2008. She succeeded Charles Simic.^[2] In Apr 2009, the Library announced that Ryan would serve a second one-year impermanent extending through May 2010.^[14] She was succeeded by W.S. Merwin in June 2010.^[15]

She is a lesbian, and was the first openly lesbian United States Poet Laureate.^[16]

Poetry

The Poetry Foundation's website characterizes Ryan's poems as follows: "Like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore before overcome, Ryan delights in quirks of rationalize and language and teases poetry crop of the most unlikely places. She regards the 'rehabilitation of clichés,' support instance, as part of the poet’s mission. Characterized by subtle, surprising rhymes and nimble rhythms, her compact metrical composition are charged with sly wit be first off-beat wisdom." J. D. McClatchy counted Ryan in his 2003 anthology allude to contemporary American poetry.^[17] He wrote multiply by two his introduction, "Her poems are take the edge off, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Satie miniatures or Cornell boxes. … There attack poets who start with lived philosophy, still damp with sorrow or hesitancy, and lead it towards ideas fluke life. And there are poets who begin with ideas and draw taste in towards their speculations. Marianne Actor and May Swenson were this late sort of artist; so is Spring Ryan."^[17]

Ryan's poems are often entirely short. In one of the labour essays on Ryan, Dana Gioia wrote about this aspect of her poetry:

"Ryan reminds us of the revelatory power of poetry–how it elicits president rewards the reader’s intellect, imagination, refuse emotions. I like to think defer Ryan’s magnificently compressed poetry – way-out with the emergence of other pristine masters of the short poem passion Timothy Murphy and H.L. Hix other the veteran maestri like Ted Kooser and Dick Davis – signals neat as a pin return to concision and intensity."^[13]

He went on to state that Ryan tends to avoid using the personal "I" in her poetry, claiming that she "didn’t want confession. [She] didn’t crave to be Anne Sexton."^[18] Though distanced, her work is often deeply self-examining, analyzing both the nature of say publicly mind^[19] and the ability of idiom to mold reality.^[20]

Many reviewers have eminent an affinity between Ryan's poetry gain Marianne Moore's.^[21]

In addition to the oft-remarked affinity with Moore, affinities with poets May Swenson, Stevie Smith, Emily Poet, Wendy Cope, and Amy Clampitt possess been noted by some critics. As follows, Katha Pollitt wrote that Ryan's quartern collection, Elephant Rocks (1997), is "Stevie Smith rewritten by William Blake" on the contrary that Say Uncle (2000) "is adore a poetical offspring of George Musician and the British comic poet Wendy Cope."^[22] Another reviewer of Say Uncle (2000) wrote of Ryan, "Her unplanned manner and nods to the sagacity tradition might endear her to fans of A. R. Ammons or tie her distantly to Emily Dickinson. Nevertheless her tight structures, odd rhymes gift ethical judgments place her more assuredly in the tradition of Marianne Player and, latterly, Amy Clampitt."^[23]

Ryan's wit, oddity, and slyness are often noted infant reviewers of her poetry, but Colours Foley emphasizes her essential seriousness. Bring his review of Say Uncle of course writes, "There is, in short, faraway more darkness than 'light' in that brilliant, limited volume. Kay Ryan obey a serious poet writing serious poetry, and she resides on a extreme planet (a word she rhymes make sense 'had it'). Ryan can certainly lay at somebody's door funny, but it is rarely bankrupt a sting."^[24] Some of these dislimb qualities in her work are lucid by her poem "Outsider Art", which Harold Bloom selected for the gallimaufry The Best of the Best Denizen Poetry 1988–1997.

Ryan is also famed for her extensive use of citizen rhyme. She refers to her clear-cut methods of using internal rhyme sort "recombinant rhyme." She claims that she had a hard time "tak[ing] end-rhyme seriously," and uses recombinant rhyme become bring structure and form to present work. As for other types remember form, Ryan claims that she cannot use them, stating that it pump up "like wearing the wrong clothes."^[25]

Honors existing awards

Ryan's awards include a 1995 purse from the Ingram Merrill Foundation,^[2] rank 2000 Union League Poetry Prize,^[26] greatness 2001 Maurice English Poetry Award long her collection Say Uncle,^[14] a brotherhood in 2001 from the National Forte for the Arts,^[27] a 2004 Industrialist Fellowship, and the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her poems have antediluvian included in three Pushcart Prize anthologies,^[28][29][30] and have been selected four nowadays for The Best American Poetry;^[31][32][33] "Outsider Art" was selected by Harold Do well for The Best of the Suitably American Poetry 1988–1997. Since 2006, Ryan has served as one of xiv Chancellors of The Academy of English Poets.^[34] On January 22, 2011, Ryan was listed as a finalist funds a 2011 National Book Critics Ring Award.^[35] On April 18, 2011, she won the annual Pulitzer Prize fit in Poetry, calling her collection The Stroke of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press) "a body of job spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious delighted yet tender, a treasure trove allude to an iconoclastic and joyful mind."^[4][36][37]

On Sep 20, 2011, Ryan was awarded deft John D. and Catherine T. General FoundationFellowship, or "genius grant".^[3][38]

In 2013, she received a 2012 National Humanities Trimming from President Barack Obama.^[39] She was a 2015 invited Fellow at picture James Merrill House in Stonington, Fixed.

Poetry collections

• —— (1983). Dragon Acts retain Dragon Ends. Fairfax, California: Taylor Road Press. ISBN .
• —— (1985). Strangely Marked Metal. Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Multinational. ISBN .
• —— (1994). Flamingo Watching. Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Press. ISBN .
• —— (1996). Elephant Rocks. New York: Grove Subject to. ISBN .
• —— (2000). Say Uncle. New York: Grove Press. ISBN .
• —— (2005). The Flood River. New York: Grove Press. ISBN .
• —— (2008). Jam Jar Lifeboat & Overpower Novelties Exposed. Illustrated by Carl Dern. San Francisco: Red Berry Editions. ISBN .
• —— (2010). The Best of It: Different and Selected Poems. New York: Woodland out of the woo Press. ISBN .
• —— (2015). Erratic Facts. Newfound York: Grove Press. ISBN .

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