Girardville, Pennsylvania
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) is an American
poet
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, short-story writer, professor, and editor.
Life
He joined the army in 1958. He graduated from
Bloomsburg State College
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in 1964, and the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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, with a Master of Fine Arts in 1967. He taught at
Kutztown University
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, from 1968 to 1999.
His work has appeared in ''
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Antaeus
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Gettysburg Review
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Massachusetts Review
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Poetry
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Poetry Northwest
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Prairie Schooner
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The Virginia Quarterly Review
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''. He also was editor of ''Yarrow'' and ''Stone Country Poetry Journal''. His first poetry collection, ''Winter Weeds'', was published in his 40s, in 1983.
Awards
* Devins Award, from the University of Missouri Press
* Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, ''Poetry Northwest''
* 1998
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, for ''Butterfly Effect''
* 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
* Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants
* 2007 Keystone Chapbook Competition, for “Underground Singing”
Greensboro Review
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