Michael Van Walleghen (1938 — May 20, 2022) was an American poet. He has published six books of poetry; his second, ''More Trouble With the Obvious'' (

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), was the winner of the

Lamont Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

of the Academy of American Poets. He has also received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, first prize in the

Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards The ''Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards'' was an annual series of poetry anthologies first published in 1949. The poems were selected from those published in a given year in English-language magazines and books; in each volume, individual poems wer ...

, a

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 several grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Before retirement he was a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was the first director of the MFA in Creative Writing program created there in 2003. Van Walleghen began his academic career at Wichita State University. He died on May 20, 2022, in Champaign, Illinois, at age 83.

Published works

*"The Permanence of Witches" published in ''The Best Poems of 1966'' (Pacific Press). *''The Wichita Poems'' (1975) *''More Trouble With the Obvious'' (1981) *''Blue Tango: Poems'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. ) *''Tall Birds Stalking'' (1994) *''The Last Neanderthal'' (1999) *Translations of Russian poet

Dmitri Bobyshev Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev ( rus, Дми́трий Васи́льевич Бо́бышев; born 11 April 1936, Mariupol) is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic. Biography Dmitry Bobyshev was born on 11 April 1936 in Mariupol. From his ...

in the anthology ''In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era'' (Zephyr Press, 1999) *''In the Black Window'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. )

References

*Averill, Thomas Fox
"Kansas Literature"
Kansas State Historical Society. Summer 2002. (Retrieved February 22, 2007)

University of Illinois Masters in Fine Arts Poetry Faculty. (Retrieved February 22, 2007)

University of Illinois Press, 2007. (Retrieved February 22, 2007)

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