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.
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
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...
, and Whichard chair in the Humanities at
East Carolina University
East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university, public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina.
Founded on March 8, 1907, as a Normal school, teacher training school, East ...
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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.
Awards
His narrative poem Hotel Malabar, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1998). His awards include a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, 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
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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
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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.
References
External links
''On the Poetry of Brendan Galvin: Habitat, New & Selected Poems (LSU Press)'', On the Seawall, Ron Slate"Interview", Thomas Reiter ''Shenandoah''
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Hollins University faculty
University of Alabama faculty
East Carolina University faculty
American male poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Central Connecticut State University faculty