Angela Sorby
Angela Sorby (born 1965) is an American poet, professor, and literary scholar.
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Angela Sorby was born in Seattle, Washington. In 2024 she teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature. She is particularly interested in how poetry engages with children and childhood.
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• Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998); • Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005) • Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). • Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 • The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014
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• Felix Pollak Prize (2014) • John Fiske Poetry Prize, University of Chicago • Midwest Book Award • Brittingham Prize in Poetry • Lorine Niedecker Award • Fulbright fellowship • Honor Book Prize from the Children's Literature Association (2005) • Discovery/The Nation Prize • Lorine Niedecker Prize
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- 1.Marquette University. The Boring Side of the Family.
- 2.Marquette University Faculty Page, Sorby, retrieved 2024-05-14.
- 3.ABE Books website, Sorby, Angela
- 4.Johns Hopkins University Press website, Over the River and Through the Wood
- 5.University of Wisconsin Press website, The Sleeve Waves
- 6.Wisconsin Academy website, Angela Sorby
- 7.Plume Poetry website, Sorby, Angela
- 8.Children's Literature Association, Book Award
- 9.Verse Wisconsin website, Issue 110: Three Poems
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