Michael Ryan (poet) explained

Michael Ryan
Birth Place:	St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Whiting Award (1987) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (2005)
Spouse:	Doreen Gildroy
Children:	1

Michael Ryan (born 1946 in St. Louis) has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.^[1]

Life

He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.^[2] He is currently the director of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine.

He has written four books of poems, an autobiography, a memoir, and a collection of essays about poetry and writing.

His work has appeared regularly in The American Poetry Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker,^[3] Poetry Magazine.^[4]

He currently lives in California with his wife, Doreen Gildroy, and their daughter, Emily.^[5]

Awards

• 1974 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for Threats Instead of Trees
• 1980 National Poetry Series, In Winter
• 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
• 1987 Whiting Award
• 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger
• 2005 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for New and Selected Poems

Selected publications

• A Posthumous Poetics. Poetry. September 1973.
• Insult. The New Yorker. November 5, 2007.
• Airplane Food. Threepenny Review. Winter 2005 .
• New And Selected Poems. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
• Baby B [memoir]. (Graywolf Press, 2004)
• A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing [essays]. (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Secret Life [autobiography]. (Pantheon, 1995; Vintage paperback, 1996)
• God Hunger [poems]. (Viking Penguin, 1989; paperback, 1990)
• In Winter [poems]. (Holt, 1981)
• Threats Instead of Trees [poems]. (Yale University Press, 1974)

External links

• "Michael Ryan", How a Poem Happens, February 9, 2009
• Hunger, Hope, and Nurture: Poetry From Michael Ryan, the Chinese Democracy Movement, and Maxine Kumi. Peter Harris. Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 1991. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081013222914/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1991/summer/harris-hunger-hope/. 2008-10-13.
• Whiting Foundation Profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: UCI E&CL Faculty Profile. www.faculty.uci.edu. 2018-03-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20130518155416/http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/english/faculty/profile.cfm?ID=2496. 2013-05-18. dead.
2. News: A Secret Life : In his new book, poet and professor Michael Ryan leads us down the dark path of his sexaddiction . . . and back.. EMMONS. STEVE. 1995-07-18. Los Angeles Times. 2018-03-13. en-US. 0458-3035.
3. Search : The New Yorker . . 2009-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607061145/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/michael_ryan/search?contributorName=michael%20ryan . 2011-06-07 . dead .
4. Web site: Michael Ryan. 2018-03-13. Poetry Foundation. en-us. Poetry Foundation. 2018-03-13.
5. Web site: Michael Ryan. Ryan. Michael. 2000-11-16. Michael Ryan. en. 2018-03-13.
6. Web site: Michael Ryan - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2009-08-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000208/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12740-michael-ryan . 2011-06-04 .