Kay Ryan Writer

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.

Personal facts

Kay Ryan
Birth dateSeptember 21, 1945
Birth place
San Jose California

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Writer

Career start1970
award
United States Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
influenced by
Emily Dickinson

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External resources

  1. http://www.danagioia.net/essays/eryan.htm
  2. http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/kay_ryan_2010_the_best_of_it
  3. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ryan
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/books/05book.html
  5. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kay-ryan
  6. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5889/the-art-of-poetry-no-94-kay-ryan