Benjamin S. Grossberg Explained

Benjamin S. Grossberg (born 1971) is an American poet and educator.^[1]

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. He is the advisor to the student run literary journal, Aerie. He was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2009.^[2]

His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and the magazines Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and The Sun.

Awards and honors

• 2005 Pushcart Prize for "Beetle Orgy" ^[3]
• 2007 Snyder Prize for Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath ^[4]
• 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry for Sweet Core Orchard ^{[5] [6]}
• 2009 Tampa Review Prize for Sweet Core Orchard ^[7]
• 2011 The Best American Poetry for "The Space Traveler Talks Frankly About Desire" ^[8]
• 2016 Christopher Hewitt Award for “Days of 1993, ’94, ’95” ^[9]
• 2016 Jacar Press Chapbook Competition for An Elegy ^[10]
• 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry (Silver) for My Husband Would ^[11]
• 2021 Connecticut Book Award in poetry for My Husband Would ^{[12] [13]}
• 2023 The James Alan McPherson Prize from The Association of Writers & Writing Programs for The Spring Before Obergefell ^[14]

Grants and fellowships

• 1998 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship
• 2003 Ohio Arts Council Grant
• 2006 Culture Works of Montgomery County, Ohio Grant ^[15]
• 2011 & 2018 Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship (2018 ^[16])

Works

Novel

• The Spring Before Obergefell (2024)

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

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)
• Poems in The Sun
• Poems on Verse Daily

Notes and References

1. Web site: Congress . The Library of . LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) . id.loc.gov . 29 March 2021.
2. Web site: Benjamin S. Grossberg University of Hartford . www.hartford.edu.
3. Book: Henderson . Bill . Pushcart prize XXIX, 2005 : best of the small presses . 2005 . Pushcart Press . Wainscott, N.Y. . 1888889403 . 29th anniversary . English.
4. Web site: Snyder Prize - Ashland Poetry Press . The Ashland Poetry Press . 29 March 2021 . english.
5. Web site: Lambda Literary Awards Finalists & Winners . Lambda Literary Foundation . 29 March 2021 . en.
6. Web site: 'Sweet Core Orchard' by Benjamin Grossberg . Lambda Literary Foundation . 29 March 2021 . en . 11 March 2010.
7. Web site: Tampa Review & Tampa Press: Benjamin S. Grossberg Wins 2008 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry . Tampa Review & Tampa Press . 29 March 2021 . 16 July 2008.
8. Web site: The Best American Poetry 2011 . The Best American Poetry . 29 March 2021 . en.
9. Web site: Calderwood . Brent . Christopher Hewitt Awards 2016: Winners Announced A&U Magazine .
10. Web site: An Elegy by Benjamin S. Grossberg . Jacar Press . 29 March 2021 . en . 8 February 2017.
11. Web site: 2020 Foreword Reviews Indie Awards for Poetry (General) . Foreword Reviews . 23 August 2021 . en.
12. Web site: 2021 Connecticut Book Awards Winners . Connecticut Center for the Book . 17 November 2021 . en.
13. News: Connecticut Book Awards Presented to Local Authors . 17 November 2021 . Connecticut by the Numbers . November 15, 2021.
14. Web site: Winners of the 2023 AWP Award Series . The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series . 31 October 2023 . en.
15. News: Morris . T. . Arts-cultural district to hand out $939,000 in grants and awards . Dayton Daily News (OH) . 10 June 2006 . A5.
16. News: Dunne . Susan . Artists, Arts Organizations Awarded State Grants . 29 March 2021 . Hartford Courant . March 23, 2018.