Benjamin S. Grossberg
Benjamin S. Grossberg is an American poet and educator.
Career
Grossberg is the director of creative writing at the University of Hartford and was a professor of literature and creative writing at Antioch College. He is the advisor to the student run literary journal, Aerie. He was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2009.His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and the magazines Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and The Sun.
Awards and honors
- 2005 Pushcart Prize for "Beetle Orgy"
- 2007 Snyder Prize for Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath
- 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry for Sweet Core Orchard
- 2009 Tampa Review Prize for Sweet Core Orchard
- 2011 The Best American Poetry for "The Space Traveler Talks Frankly About Desire"
- 2016 Christopher Hewitt Award for “Days of 1993, ’94, ’95”
- 2016 Jacar Press Chapbook Competition for An Elegy
- 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry for My Husband Would
- 2021 Connecticut Book Award in poetry for My Husband Would
- 2023 The James Alan McPherson Prize from The Association of Writers & Writing Programs for The Spring before Obergefell
- 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance for ''The Spring before Obergefell''
Grants and fellowships
- 1998 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Fellowship
- 2003 Ohio Arts Council Grant
- 2006 Culture Works of Montgomery County, Ohio Grant
- 2011 & 2018 Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship
Works
Novel
Poetry collections
Poetry chapbooks
- As Are Right Fit
Editor
Essays
- “‘Numbered Now with the Rest of These’: Robert Boucheron and the Poetry of AIDS” in
- , Door = Jar,
- “Culture Club in Space: An Anecdotal Poetics” in
- , AWP: Magazine & Media, Association of Writers and Writers Programs,
- , Superstition Review, Arizona State University
Recordings
- The Common Magazine, Issue 17, April 15, 2019
- & The Brainwaves Video Anthology Kenyon Review Out Loud
- , The Brainwaves Video Anthology Hartford Courant, September 20, 2018
- on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio's, Where We Live, June 3, 2014