Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Born Palo Alto, California, USA
Died (2016-10-14)October 14, 2016
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Nationality American
Occupation Writer

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951 – October 14, 2016) was an American poet.[1]

Life

Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California, grew up in southern Indiana and lived much of her adult life in central Illinois. An intensely private woman, little is known about her life.[2] She was married to Michael Madonick, a poet and fiction writer; they had three children. In 1997, Kelly was named Lamont Poet at Phillips Exeter Academy.

She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College.[1] Along with Madonick, Kelly was a professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3][4] She died on October 14, 2016 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.[5][6]

Awards

Books

  • Poems: Song and the Orchard. Carcanet. 2008. ISBN 978-1-85754-979-9.
  • The Orchard. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2004. ISBN 978-1-929918-48-5.
  • Song. BOA Editions, Ltd. 1995. ISBN 978-1-880238-13-4.
  • To the Place of Trumpets. Yale University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-300-04150-7.

Chapbooks

  • Iskandariya. Illustrator Briony Morrow-Cribbs. 2007.
  • Black swan. Harold Kyle. 2005.
  • Mt. Angel. University of Oregon. 1983.

Anthologies

  • Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). "The Garden of the Trumpet Tree". The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
  • Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). "Song". The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11962-7.
  • Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, eds. (2001). "Black Swann". Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-177-9.
  • Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-35-2.
  • Bill Henderson, ed. (2004). The Pushcart Prize XXIX 2005: Best of the Small Presses. W. W. Norton & Company Limited. ISBN 978-1-888889-39-0.
  • Paul Muldoon, David Lehman, eds. (2008). "The Wolf". The best American poetry, 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1.

References

  1. 1 2 Kelly, Brigit Pegeen (4 February 2014). "Brigit Pegeen Kelly". poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. "Brigit Pegeen Kelly Biography - eNotes.com". enotes.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. "UIUC Creative Writing Program". illinois.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  4. "Brigit Pegeen Kelly". poetryfoundation.org. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  5. "Brigit Pegeen Kelly". poetryfoundation.org. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2016-11-06/ask-mimi-nov-6-2016.html
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