Brigit Pegeen Kelly Explained

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Birth Date:	1951
Birth Place:	Palo Alto, California, USA
Death Place:	Urbana, Illinois, USA^[1]
Occupation:	Poet, professor
Language:	English
Movement:	Contemporary
Spouse:	Michael Madonick
Children:	3

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951 – October 14, 2016) was an American poet and teacher.^[2] Born in Palo Alto, California, Kelly grew up in southern Indiana and lived much of her adult life in central Illinois. An intensely private woman, little is known about her life.^[2]

Career

Kelly was the winner of numerous awards for her poetry, including the Yale Younger Poets award, a Whiting award, and, in 1997, was named the Lamont Poet at the Phillips Exeter Academy.

Kelly was a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as senior poetry editor of Ninth Letter.^{[3] [4]} She also taught, previously at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College.^[2]

Awards

• 2008: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
• 2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist (for The Orchard)
• 2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1999: American Academy of Arts and Letters Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
• 1996: Whiting Award
• 1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
• 1994: Lamont Poetry Prize (for Song)
• 1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
• 1986: Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize

Books

• Book: 2008 . Poems: Song and The Orchard . . 9781857549799 .
• Book: 2004 . The Orchard: Poems . registration . . 9781929918485 .
• Book: 1995 . Song: Poems . registration . . 9781880238134 .
• Book: 1988 . To the Place of Trumpets . Yale University Press . 9780300041507 .

Chapbooks

• Book: Iskandariya . Illustrator Briony Morrow-Cribbs . 2007.
• Book: Black Swan. Harold Kyle. 2005 .
• Book: Mt. Angel. University of Oregon. 1983 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=5a5_Ii2R3qUC&q=Brigit+Pegeen+kelly+best+american&pg=PA140. The Garden of the Trumpet Tree. The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry . Michael Collier . Stanley Plumly. UPNE. 1999. 978-0-87451-950-1 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=jhsGCZuhmnoC&q=Brigit+Pegeen+kelly+best+american&pg=PA192. Song. The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women . Susan Aizenberg . Erin Belieu . Jeremy Countryman. Columbia University Press. 2001. 978-0-231-11962-7 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj55WTdjly8C&q=Brigit+Pegeen+kelly+best+american&pg=PA198. Black Swan. Poets of the New Century . Roger Weingarten . Richard Higgerson. David R. Godine . 2001. 978-1-56792-177-9 .
• Book: Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press. 2003. 978-1-888889-35-2. registration.
• Book: The Pushcart Prize XXIX 2005: Best of the Small Presses. registration. Bill Henderson. W. W. Norton & Company . 2004. 978-1-888889-39-0 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=iSeX9VnzS-YC&q=Brigit+Pegeen+kelly+best+american&pg=PA89. The Wolf. The Best American Poetry 2005 . Paul Muldoon . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 2008. 978-0-7432-5738-1 .

External links

• Academy of American Poets Biography
• Literary Agent site
• BOA Editions Biography
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Orchard reviewed in Double Room

Notes and References

1. News: Merli . Melissa . 2016-11-06 . Ask 'Mimi' . The News-Gazette . Urbana-Champaign, Illinois . 2019-05-24 .
2. Web site: Brigit Pegeen Kelly . Academy of American Poets . 2005-04-30 . Poets.org . 2019-05-25.
3. Web site: UIUC Creative Writing Program. illinois.edu. 19 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719211225/http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/faculty/brigit_kelly/. July 19, 2011. dead.
4. Web site: Brigit Pegeen Kelly. 18 November 2016. poetryfoundation.org. 19 November 2016.