Brendan Galvin Explained

Brendan James Galvin (October 20, 1938 - August 17, 2023) was an American poet. His book, Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965–2005, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award.[1]

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, and Whichard chair in the Humanities at East Carolina University.[2] [3] His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998.[4]

He lived with his wife, Ellen, in Truro, Massachusetts, and passed away at 84 after suffering a heart attack in 2023.[5]

Awards

His narrative poem Hotel Malabar, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press, 1998). His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, 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

Books

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.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brendan Galvin, 2005 NBA Poetry Finalist, National Book Foundation. nationalbook.org. May 18, 2015.
  2. Web site: Interview with Brendan Galvin. ecu.edu. May 18, 2015. March 31, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070331101156/http://www.ecu.edu/english/tcr/21-2/Galvininterview.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Fall 2002. ecu.edu. May 18, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160128031254/http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/liberalarts/galvin.cfm. January 28, 2016. dead.
  4. Web site: VQR » Brendan Galvin . May 17, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081119143128/http://www.vqronline.org/author/5594/brendan-galvin/ . November 19, 2008 .
  5. Web site: Brendan Galvin, Prolific Poet of the Truro Seashore, Dies at 84 . January 26, 2024.
  6. RHYTHMS OF EXPERIENCE: BRENDAN GALVIN'S OCEAN EFFECTS. RUSS KESLER . VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW; Fall/Winter 2008–2009 .