Michael McGriff
Michael McGriff is an American poet.
Life
McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, AGNI, The Believer, Missouri Review, and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, a publishing house dedicated to poetry in translation and the revival of out-of-print books.McGriff's book Home Burial chronicles the dissolution of a people and their landscape - the coastal Pacific Northwest. His most recent book of poetry, Early Hour, is a book length sequence inspired by German Expressionist Karl Hofer's 1935 painting of the same name.
McGriff currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.
Awards
- Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
- Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation
- Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin
- 2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for Dismantling the Hills
- 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
- 2013 Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University
Works
- "Year of the Rat", Courtland Review, Spring 2009
- Home Burial
- Black Postcards
- Early Hour
- Eternal Sentences
- ''Angel Sharpening Its Beak ''
Anthology
Translation
- "From July ’90", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007
- "Landscape with Suns", Tomas Tranströmer, AGNI 65, 2007