Brendan Galvin
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.
Brendan Galvin
- Name
- Brendan Galvin
- Birth Name
- Brendan James Galvin
- Born
- 20 October 1938
- Died
- 17 August 2023
- Occupation
- Poet
- Spouse
- Ellen
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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• Name — Brendan Galvin • Birth Name — Brendan James Galvin • Born — 20 October 1938 • Died — 17 August 2023 • Occupation — Poet • Spouse — Ellen
Life
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. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998. He lived with his wife, Ellen, in Truro, Massachusetts, and died at 84 after suffering a heart attack in 2023.
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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.
Books
• Ocean Effects, Louisiana State University Press, 2007 • The Strength of a Named Thing, Louisiana State University Press • Sky and Island Light, Louisiana State University Press * *
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.
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- 1.Brendan Galvin, 2005 NBA Poetry Finalist, National Book Foundation. nationalbook.org.
- 2.Interview with Brendan Galvin. ecu.edu.
- 3.Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Fall 2002. ecu.edu.
- 4.VQR » Brendan Galvin.
- 5.Brendan Galvin, Prolific Poet of the Truro Seashore, Dies at 84. August 23, 2023.
- 6.RUSS KESLER. RHYTHMS OF EXPERIENCE: BRENDAN GALVIN'S OCEAN EFFECTS. VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW; Fall/Winter 2008–2009.
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