Brigit
Kelly has published three books of poetry, To the Place of
Trumpets (Yale University Press, 1988), selected by James
Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, Song
(BOA Editions, Ltd., 1995), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize
from the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Los
Angeles Times Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times
Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Additional awards and honors
include a "Discovery" / The Nation award, the
Witter Bynner Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the
Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships
from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Illinois Arts
Council. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and literary
magazines, including The Nation, The Yale Review,
New England Review, Poetry, The Antioch
Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern
Review, five Pushcart Prize volumes, and six volumes
of The Best American Poetry. Kelly, who has taught for
many years primarily at the University of Illinois, has also taught
at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University,
Warren Wilson College, and numerous writers' conferences. In 2002
the University of Illinois awarded her both humanities and campus-wide
awards for excellence in teaching.
BOA books by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Song
The
Orchard
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