Michael McGriff explained

Michael McGriff
Birth Place:	Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (2007)

Michael McGriff is an American poet.

Life

McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI,^[1] The Believer, Missouri Review,^[2] and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books,^[3] a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.

McGriff's book Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest. His most recent book of poetry, Early Hour, is a book length sequence inspired by German Expressionist Karl Hofer's 1935 painting (Fruhe Stunde^[4]) of the same name.

McGriff currently teaches creative writing^[5] at the University of Idaho.

Awards

• Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University^[6]
• Ruth Lilly Fellowship^[7] from The Poetry Foundation
• Michener Fellowship^[8] from the University of Texas at Austin
• 2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for Dismantling the Hills
• 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
• 2013 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University

Works

• "Year of the Rat", Courtland Review, Spring 2009
• Book: Choke . Traprock Books. 2006. 978-0-9767411-2-1 .
• Book: Dismantling the Hills . University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008. 978-0-8229-6007-2 .
• Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
• Black Postcards (Willow Springs Books, 2017)
• Early Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
• Eternal Sentences (The University of Arkansas Press, 2021)

Anthology

• Book: Family matters: poems of our families. Larry Smith. Bottom Dog Press. 2005. 978-0-933087-95-8 .

Translation

• "From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
• "Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
• Book: The Sorrow Gondola. Tomas Tranströmer. Translator Michael McGriff. Green Integer. 2009. 978-1-933382-44-9 .

External links

• "Michael McGriff Q&A recommends two poets", Fishouse

Notes and References

1. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Michael McGriff. Bu.edu. 10 November 2017.
2. Web site: TMR: Michael McGriff . 2009-08-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727092551/http://www.moreview.org/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=1153 . 2011-07-27 .
3. Web site: Tavern Books. Tavernbooks.com. 10 November 2017.
4. Web site: Frühe Stunde (Early Hour). Portlandartmuseum.us. 10 November 2017.
5. Web site: M.F.A. Creative Writing.
6. Web site: Former Stegner Fellows Creative Writing Program . 2023-04-12 . creativewriting.stanford.edu . en.
7. Web site: Foundation Awards. 29 September 2021.
8. https://michener.utexas.edu