Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham was recorded at birth as Jorie Pepper. The authorities additionally record the heading Jorie Pepper. Her recorded language was English.

She was the child of Curtis Bill Pepper and Beverly Pepper.

Jorie Graham received Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, International Nonino Prize and Wallace Stevens Award.

What the record establishes about Jorie Graham.

Model for Pavilion/Sculpture for Argonne is dated 1978–81 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 1982.404). Jorie Graham is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program and Rome Prize. Torqued Chandelier Release is dated 2005 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 2005.292). Apotheosis is dated 1955–57 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 2018.326). Cave Canem is dated 1944 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 1973.60). Untitled is dated 1931 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 2018.323).

The Art Institute of Chicago records 8 objects associated with this heading. Jorie Graham is recorded with the citizenship of United States. Jorie Graham is recorded at birth as Jorie Pepper. Open Library catalogues 57 works under this name. Jorie Graham is recorded as poet and writer. The Best American Poetry 1990 is dated 1990.

Where material relating to Jorie Graham is held.

Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry: States of the Art June 2, 2001 (2001) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Overlord (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Place (2012) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Swarm (2000) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

The identifiers under which Jorie Graham may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Jorie Graham is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q6278867.

35 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1955 to 2005.

American Poetry. [To] the Last [Be] Human. The phase after history. To a friend. Materialism. From the New World. To 2040. Swarm. Overlord. Erosion. Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. Fast. Runaway. Region of Unlikeness. Errancy. Never. End of Beauty. Dream of the Unified Field. Place: New Poems. Place. Sea Change. Occupation. Eleven poems. Jorie Graham. To a friend going blind. The turning. A poetry reading. From the new world : poems 1976-2014. The Best American Poetry 1990, dated 1990. Earth Took of Earth. The end of beauty. The dream of the unified field. Apotheosis, dated 1955–57, oil paint and graphite with smudging on tan wove paper, laid down on japanese paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2018.326. Torqued Chandelier Release, dated 2005, 35mm color film silent (custom film projector at 48 fps); 5 min. loop, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2005.292. Model for Pavilion/Sculpture for Argonne, dated 1978–81, wood, mirror, and plexiglas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.404.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 8 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

7 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Understanding Jorie Graham, 2025. Jorie Graham as Twenty-First Century Modernist, No Image There and the Gaze Remains, 2014. Chaos/Complexity Theory and Postmodern Poetry: A Case Study of Jorie Graham’s “Fuse”, SAGE Open, 2017. The Causality of Casualness in the Translations of World Poetry: Jorie Graham vs Mary Oliver in Italy, Ticontre: Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2014. Revisiting the Semiotic: A Study of Jorie Graham’s Poetic Consciousness in Sea Change, Critical Literary Studies, 2024. Radical Ecopoetics: The Apocalyptic Vision of Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, Text Matters, 2023. Metamorphosis: Jorie Graham’s Transformative Turns, Humanities, 2025.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 8 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Jorie Graham studied at University of Iowa and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. the recorded working language is English.

Employment is recorded with Harvard University and University of Iowa. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Rome Prize and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.