Campbell McGrath
Campbell John McGrath (born January 26, 1962) is an American poet. He is the author of twelve full-length collections of poetry, including Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2008), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016), for which McGrath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Life
McGrath was born in
Music
In the early 1980s, while a student at the University of Chicago, he was a member of the punk band Men From The Manly Planet.[2]
Awards
McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for "Spring Comes to Chicago", his third book of poems), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award." In 2011, he was named a Fellow of United States Artists.[3] In 2017, McGrath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, along with Adrienne Rich.
Works
While primarily known as a poet, McGrath has also written a play, "The Autobiography of Edvard Munch" (produced by Concrete Gothic Theater, Chicago, 1983); a libretto for Orlando Garcia's experimental video opera "Transcending Time" (premiered at the New Music Biennalle, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009); collaborated with the video artist John Stuart on the video/poetry piece "14 Views of Miami" (premiered at The Wolfsonian, Miami, 2008); and translated the Aristophanes play The Wasps for the Penn Greek Drama Series.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections and chapbooks
- Dust (Ohio Review Press, 1987)
- Capitalism (Wesleyan University Press, 1990)
- American Noise (Ecco Press, 1993)
- Spring Comes to Chicago (Ecco Press, 1996)
- Road Atlas (Ecco Press, 1999)
- Mangrovia (chapbook, Short Line Editions, 2001)
- Florida Poems (Ecco Press, 2002)
- Pax Atomica (Ecco Press, 2004)
- Heart of Anthracite: New & Collected Prose Poems (Stride Press, UK)
- Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2008)
- Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009)
- The Custodian & Other Poems (chapbook, Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2011)
- In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012)
- XX: Poems For The Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016)
- Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2019)
- Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems (Knopf, 2023)
- List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
---|---|---|---|
Saying no | 2014 | McGrath, Campbell (April 14, 2014). "Saying no". The New Yorker. 90 (8): 30. | |
The Mercy Supermarket | 2022 | McGrath, Campbell (May 23, 2022). "The Mercy Supermarket". The New Yorker. 98 (13): 34–35. |
References
- ^ "Campbell McGrath". Ploughshares. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ^ "Florida Poets Project". Florida Poets Project. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
- ^ "Campbell McGrath". USA Fellows. United States Artists. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
External links
- "Historian, comedian, storyteller:a conversation with poet Campbell McGrath," Lyn Millner, Florida International University Magazine, Fall 1999 issue.
- Interview in MIPOesias
- Bio and notes on articles in Ploughshares
- Excerpt from Pax Atomica at Harper Collins
- Poetry Daily interview
- University of Chicago Magazine profile
- Interview in BOMB