Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock (born October 19, 1964) is an American poet and translator.

Geoffrey Brock
Born (1964-10-19) October 19, 1964
OccupationPoet
Translator
Professor
NationalityAmerican
SpousePadma Viswanathan

Education

He received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1998.[1] He also holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

His poems have been published in Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, PN Review, New England Review, The Hudson Review, and The Best American Poetry 2007. He teaches poetry and translation in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Arkansas.

Brock is married to the writer Padma Viswanathan and they have two children.

Awards

His translations have received a number of prizes and fellowships, including the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.

Works

Poetry

  • Voices Bright Flags. Waywiser. 2014. ISBN 978-1-904130642.
  • Weighing Light. Ivan R. Dee. 2005. ISBN 978-1-56663-667-4.

Translations

Anthology Edited

  • The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-10538-9.

References

  1. "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". English.ufl.edu. 2005-05-29. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
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