Frank Bidart was born on May 27,1939 and is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
10 Facts About Frank Bidart
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Frank Bidart then went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
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Frank Bidart began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962.
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Frank Bidart has been an English professor at Wellesley College since 1972, and has taught at nearby Brandeis University.
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Frank Bidart has written openly about his family in the style of confessional poetry.
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Frank Bidart co-edited the Collected Poems of Robert Lowell which was published in 2003 after years of working on the book's voluminous footnotes with his co-editor David Gewanter.
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Frank Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.
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Frank Bidart's chapbook, Music Like Dirt, later included in the collection Star Dust, was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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Frank Bidart's 2013 book Metaphysical Dog was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Frank Bidart currently maintains a strong working relationship with actor and fellow poet James Franco, with whom he collaborated during the making of Franco's short film "Herbert White", based on Bidart's poem of the same name.