Benjamin S. Grossberg (born 1971) is an American poet and educator.

Career

Grossberg is the director of creative writing at the University of Hartford and was a professor of literature and creative writing at Antioch College. Until the 2022-2023 school year, he the advisor to the student run literary journal, Aerie. He was the winner of the

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a gay-themed book of poetry by a male writer. At the first two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989 and 1990, a single award for LGBT Po ...

in 2009. His poems have appeared in the

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

and Best American Poetry anthologies, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and the magazines '' Paris Review'', '' The Kenyon Review'', '' Ploughshares'', ''

New England Review The ''New England Review'' is an American quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. It was established in 1978 by Sydney Lea and Jay Parini. From 1982 till 1990, the magazine was named ''New England Review & Bread Loaf Quart ...

'', '' Prairie Schooner'', '' North American Review'', and '' The Sun''.

Awards and honors

* 2005 Pushcart Prize for "Beetle Orgy" * 2007 Snyder Prize for ''Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath'' * 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry for ''Sweet Core Orchard'' * 2009 Tampa Review Prize for ''Sweet Core Orchard'' * 2011 The Best American Poetry for "The Space Traveler Talks Frankly About Desire" * 2016 Christopher Hewitt Award for “Days of 1993, ’94, ’95” * 2016 Jacar Press Chapbook Competition for ''An Elegy'' * 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry (Silver) for ''My Husband Would'' * 2021 Connecticut Book Award in poetry for ''My Husband Would''

Grants and fellowships

* 1998 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship * 2003 Ohio Arts Council Grant * 2006 Culture Works of Montgomery County, Ohio Grant * 2011 & 2018 Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship (2018 )

Works

Poetry collections

''Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath''
(2007)
''Sweet Core Orchard''
(2009)
''Space Traveler''
(2014)
''My Husband Would''
(2020)

Poetry chapbooks

''The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel''
(2006)
''An Elegy''
(2017)

Editor

''The Poetry of Capital: Voices from Twenty-first Century America''
(2021)

Essays

“Culture Club in Space: An Anecdotal Poetics”
i
''Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners''
(2012)
“How to Put Words in Someone's Mouth: Teaching the Dramatic Monologue”
''AWP: Magazine & Media'', Association of Writers and Writers Programs, (July 2013)
“Through Me”
''Superstition Review'', Arizona State University (12 December 2013)

Recordings

"Catherine The Great,"
The Common Magazine, Issue 17, April 15, 2019
”Heaven”

“The Space Traveler Talks Frankly About Desire,”
The Brainwaves Video Anthology (2019)
“In My 47th Year” and “Catawba,”
''Kenyon Review Out Loud'' (XLI Number 3, 2019)
Teachers Make a Difference - Ed Hirsch
The Brainwaves Video Anthology (2019)

''Hartford Courant'', September 20, 2018
“The Space Traveler and Wandering,”
on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio's, Where We Live, June 3, 2014

References

External links

Grossberg's Bio on The Poetry Foundation

“I am first a creature of the imagination: An interview with Benjamin Grossberg,”
''Long River Review'' (2015)
“The 10 Questions for Benjamin S. Grossberg,”
''The Massachusetts Review'' (2018)
“Five Poets that Changed My Life,”
Lambda Literary (2010) * Poems in ''The Yale Review''
v107:2 2019

v104:1 2016
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Poems in The Sun
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Poems on Verse Daily
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