Lannan Literary Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 184 (2010) Winner
Michael McGriff
マイケル・マクグリフ
Maikeru Makugurifu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S.
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Coos Bay, Oregon → Moscow, Idaho (teaches at University of Idaho)
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Creative writing teacher
- Active Years
- 2000-
- Affiliations
- University of Idaho (faculty)
- Influenced By
- Karl Hofer (inspiration from his painting), Tomas Tranströmer (translated author)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Stegner Fellowship | — | — | Stanford University Creative Writing Program | 受賞 |
| — | Ruth Lilly Fellowship | — | — | The Poetry Foundation | 受賞 |
| — | Michener Fellowship | — | — | University of Texas at Austin (Michener Center) | 受賞 |
| 2007 | Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize | Dismantling the Hills | — | University of Pittsburgh Press | 受賞 |
| 2010 | Lannan Literary Fellowship | — | — | Lannan Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Levis Reading Prize | — | — | Virginia Commonwealth University | 受賞 |
Stegner Fellowship
Organization:
Stanford University Creative Writing Program
Result:
受賞
Ruth Lilly Fellowship
Organization:
The Poetry Foundation
Result:
受賞
Michener Fellowship
Organization:
University of Texas at Austin (Michener Center)
Result:
受賞
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
2007
Work:
Dismantling the Hills
Organization:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Result:
受賞
Lannan Literary Fellowship
2010
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
受賞
Levis Reading Prize
2013
Organization:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Choke
2006 PoetryAn early collection of poems that draws on regional life and personal memory.
memoryregional identity
Dismantling the Hills
2008 PoetryWinner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; a collection portraying the dissolution of communities and landscapes of the coastal Pacific Northwest.
coastal landscapedeclineloss
Home Burial
2012 PoetryA book-length sequence chronicling the dissolution of a people and their coastal Pacific Northwest landscape.
Pacific Northwest landscapecommunity dissolution
Black Postcards
2017 PoetryPublished in 2017, a collection exploring memory and transient landscapes through short poems and sequences.
memorylandscape
Early Hour
2017 PoetryA book-length sequence inspired by Karl Hofer's 1935 painting 'Frühe Stunde (Early Hour)'.
dialogue with paintingtimeawakening
Eternal Sentences
2021 PoetryA 2021 poetry collection engaging with the persistence of language and stylistic experiments.
persistence of languagestylistic experiment
Angel Sharpening Its Beak
2025 PoetryA recent poetry collection published in 2025 as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series.
religious imageryallegorical elements
Bibliography
- Choke
- Dismantling the Hills
- Home Burial
- Black Postcards
- Early Hour
- Eternal Sentences
- Angel Sharpening Its Beak
Translations by Author
- The Sorrow Gondola (Tomas Tranströmer), translated by Michael McGriff
- "From July ’90", "Landscape with Suns" (translations of Tomas Tranströmer, published in AGNI)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical and richly descriptive of landscapequiet, observational tone
- Recurring Motifs
- coastlinesdecline of communitiesloss and memory
Legacy
A contemporary American poet noted for poems about the Pacific Northwest landscape and declining communities. Founder of Tavern Books, contributed to poetry translation and revival of out-of-print works, and teaches creative writing at the university level.
Trivia
- Founder of Tavern Books, a press devoted to poetry in translation and reviving out-of-print books.
- Translated Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola into English.
- Teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.