Jay Meek
Jay Meek (1937 – November 3, 2007, St. Paul) was an American poet, and director of the Creative Writing program at the University of North Dakota. He was the poetry editor of the North Dakota Quarterly for many years.
Jay Meek
- Name
- Jay Meek
- Born
- 1937
- Died
- 3 November 2007
- Place of death
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- University of Michigan Syracuse University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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He graduated from University of Michigan in 1959, and from Syracuse University with a master's degree in creative writing in 1963. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sarah Lawrence College, Wake Forest University, Memphis State University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Colby College (Maine) and Syracuse University. In 2005, he read his poetry at the Library of Congress. He married Martha George Meek in 1966; they had a daughter, Anna George Meek, and granddaughter, Sarah Meek.
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• Name — Jay Meek • Born — 1937 • Died — 3 November 2007 • Place of death — Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — University of Michigan Syracuse University • Children — 1
Works
Works
• The week the dirigible came: poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1976, • Drawing on the walls, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1980, • Earthly purposes, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1984, • Stations: poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989, • Windows, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994 • Headlands: new and selected poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997, • Trains in winter, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004, • The Memphis letters: a novel, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001,
Anthologies
Anthologies
• "Sonny Liston", Perfect in their art: poems on boxing from Homer to Ali, Editors Robert Hedin, Michael Waters, SIU Press, 2003, • "Visiting My Boyhood Friend after His Stroke", Line drives: 100 contemporary baseball poems, Editors Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, SIU Press, 2002, • "The Week the Dirigible Came", The Zeppelin reader: stories, poems, and songs from the age of airships, Editor Robert Hedin, University of Iowa Press, 1998,
Awards
• 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship • National Endowment for the Arts Grants (Twice) • Pushcart Prize • Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship
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- 1.Department of English dead link. April 2017.
- 2.Meek, Jay. Poet gives lectures, reads from his work. The Bismarck Tribune. April 8, 1994.
- 3.College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University. A family poetry reading. Digital Commons at CSB/SJU.
- 4.Cohen, Ben. Jay Meek, poetry professor at University of N. Dakota. Minneapolis Star Tribune. November 30, 2007.
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