Michael Blumenthal, Darden Chair of Writing and Visiting Professor, Creative Writing
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J.D. Cornell Law School
M.A. Antioch University
B.A. SUNY at Binghamton
4046 Batten Arts & Letters
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Teaching
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction
Law and Literature
Research Areas
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction
Law and Literature
Translation
Selected Publications
Non-fiction
All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir (Harper-Collins, New York, 2002)
When History Enters the House: Central European Essays, 1992-1996 (Pleasure Boat Studios, Seattle, 1998)
Poetry
And: Poems, BOA Editions, 2009
Dusty Angel: Poems, BOA Editions, 1999; Isabella Stewart Gardner Prize, 1999.
The Wages of Goodness: Poems, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1992
Against Romance, Viking-Penguin, 1987; re-issued Pleasure Boat Studios, 1996
Laps: A Poem, University of Massachusetts, Juniper Prize Selection, 1984
Days We Would Rather Know, Viking-Penguin, 1984; re-issued Pleasure Boat Studios, 1996
Sympathetic Magic, The Water Mark Press, NY, 1980; Winner of the Water Mark Poets of North America First Book Prize
Fiction
Weinstock Among the Dying (Zoland Books, 1993)
Translations
And Yet: Selected Poems of Pater Kantor (Irodalom Publishers, Budapest, 2000)
Selected Works
Correcting The World: Selected Poetry, Prose & Essays of Michael Blumenthal, University of West Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Forum, 2007
Honors and Awards
Scalg-lyrikpreis for poetry in German, 2009
The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, 2005 and 1984
The Harold U. Ribalow Prize For Fiction,1994
Council For The International Exchange of Scholars (Three Senior Fulbright Lectureship In American Literature), 1992-95
The Danforth Center For The Study Of Teaching & Learning, Harvard University Certificates of Excellence in Teaching, 1983-l993
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, 1988
The Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, 1986
The Academy Of American Poets, Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Prize, 1986
The Associated Writing Programs Anniversary Award for Best Poem, 1983
The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, Fellow of the International Study Center, 1982
Other fellowships have been received from The MacDowell Colony, The D.C. Commission on the Arts, The Ossabaw Island Foundation, The St. Botolph Club Foundation, The Fundaçion Valparaiso, and The Corporation of Yaddo.
