Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet.

In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962.^[1]

He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there. He has also taught at nearby Brandeis University.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Other 2 Awards and honors 3 Notes 4 External links 4.1 Biography 4.2 Other

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

• Golden State (1973)
• The Book of the Body (1977)
• The Sacrifice (1983)
• In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990)
• Desire (1997) received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
• Star Dust (2005), in two sections

[edit] Other

• Editor, with David Gewanter, of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003)

[edit] Awards and honors

• Wallace Stevens Award
• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award
• Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America
• The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981
• Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003

[edit] Notes

1. ^ [1]Web page biography of Bidart at The Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 5, 2007

• Rae Armantrout; John Ashbery; et al. (2002). The Best American Poetry 2002. Scribner Poetry. ISBN 0-7432-0386-0. 

[edit] External links

[edit] Biography

• Poetry Foundation
• Academy of American Poets
• Famous Poets and Poems Web site
• Notable Names Database

[edit] Other

• Bookslut blog interview with Bidart
• Frank Bidart reads his poems at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, RealAudio