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Jorie Graham
Poet, Author
1950 –
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Who is Jorie Graham?
Jorie Graham is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
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- Born
- May 9, 1950
New York City - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- William Welsh Graham
- James Galvin
(1983 - 1999) - Peter M. Sacks
(2000 - )
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Master of Fine Arts, University of Iowa
Poetry
( - 1978) - New York University
- University of Paris
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
(1999 - )
- Massachusetts
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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