Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart (born 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. [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/162] Web page biography of Bidart at The Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 5, 2007]

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.

Frank Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

Works

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
* "Watching the Spring Festival" (2008) [http://us.macmillan.com/watchingthespringfestival] , Bidart's first book of lyrics

Other

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

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
* Bollingen Prize in American Poetry (2007)

Notes

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External links

* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/frankbidart Frank Bidart at FSG]

Biography

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/162 Academy of American Poets]
* [http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/frank_bidart Famous Poets and Poems Web site]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/639/000115294/ Notable Names Database]
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=572 Poetry Foundation]

Other

* [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_06_005720.php Bookslut blog interview with Bidart]
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