Michael McGriff
Bio: Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He is the author of two poetry collections, Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and The Sequence of the Night (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His other books include a translation of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010) and an edition of David Wevill's essential works, To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010). He has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Michener Fellowship, NEA grant, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is the co-founder of Tavern Books, a press dedicated to reviving out-of-print poetry collections with an emphasis on poetry in translation.
ED: Updated June 2011.
First posted on February 1, 2006 6:29 AM
- Lines Written Before the Day Shift
- Iron
- Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales
- Brief Elegy on the Tip of a Match
- Ash and Silt
- The Field
- Coos Bay
- Sudden Poem for the Last Hour of Winter
- Michael McGriff Q&A talks about the most pleasurable aspect of writing
- Michael McGriff Q&A recommends two poets
- Michael McGriff