L. Luis Lopez
L. Luis Lopez is an American poet.
Life
Lopez graduated from Spring Hill College, from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico with an MA, and from the University of New Mexico with a PhD.He taught high school in Tampa, Florida, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in Grand Junction, Colorado. At the university level, he taught in the Academic Honors Program at the University of New Mexico and at Mesa State College.
lopez lives in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Awards
- two NEH fellowships, one to study lyric poetry with Dr. Helen Vendler at Harvard, Summer 1983, and a second to study the literature of innocent suffering with Dr. Terrence Tilley at St. Michael's College.
- 2008 American Book Award
Works
AnthologiesOnce Upon a Place Charity- ''Talking From the Heart''