1. Jorie Graham won the 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
18 Facts About Jorie Graham
1. 2.
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Stoll Pepper.
3.
Jorie Graham studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, but was expelled for participating in student protests.
4.
Jorie Graham completed her undergraduate work as a film major at New York University, and became interested in poetry during that time.
5.
Jorie Graham has edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language and The Best American Poetry 1990.
6.
Jorie Graham is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry.
7.
In 2013, Jorie Graham became only the third American to win the International Nonino Prize.
8.
In 2017, Jorie Graham received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
9.
Jorie Graham won the 2018 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Fast.
10.
Jorie Graham's work pulls forward our mythical, historical, environmental, and personal narratives in order to inhabit our most ordinary and collective experiences.
11.
Jorie Graham served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
12.
Jorie Graham has held a longtime faculty position at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has held an appointment at Harvard University since 1999.
13.
Jorie Graham replaced Nobel Laureate and poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston professor in Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language.
14.
Jorie Graham became the first woman to be awarded this position.
15.
Jorie Graham then married the poet James Galvin in 1983 and they divorced in 1999.
16.
Jorie Graham married poet and painter Peter M Sacks, in 2000.
17.
Jorie Graham noted that at that time she was not married to Sacks, and that while she had "felt awkward" about giving the award to her then-boyfriend, she had first cleared it with the series editor, Bin Ramke.
18.
Jorie Graham subsequently announced that she would no longer serve as a judge in contests although she continued to do so after 2008.