Robert Morgan (born 1944, Age 78) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, short story writer, and novelist.

Life

He studied at

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as an engineering and mathematics major, transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an English major, graduating in 1965, and completed an MFA degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1968. He has taught at

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since 1971, and was appointed Professor of English in 1984.

Awards

* Academy Award in Literature by the

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* 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize * 2012 SIBA Book Award (nonfiction) for ''Lions of the West'' * 2013 William "Singing Billy" Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections *''Zirconia Poems''. Northwood Narrows, New Hampshire: Lillabulero Press, 1969. * *''Red Owl''. New York: Norton, 1972. * *''Trunk & Thicket''. Fort Collins, Colorado: L’Epervier Press, 1978. *''Groundwork''. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1979. *''Bronze Age''. Emory, Virginia: Iron Mountain Press, 1981. *''At the Edge of the Orchard Country''. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. * * *''Green River: New and Selected Poems''. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991. *''Wild Peavines: New Poems''. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1996. * * * * ;List of poems
"OPTION", ''The Atlantic'', October 1997

Short fiction

;Collections * *''The Mountains Won’t Remember Us and Other Stories''. Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, 1992. * * ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Novels

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Non-fiction

* ''Good Measure: Essays, Interviews and Notes on Poetry''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. * ''Boone: A Biography'', Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007, * ''Lions of the West - Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion'', Shannon Ravenel Books, 2011,

References

External links

"Author's website"

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
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