Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ellen Bryant Voigt
File:Ellen Bryant Voigt 1 - 2015 MacArthur Fellow.jpg Voigt at her Cabot, Vermont home in 2015
Born	1943 Chatham, Virginia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Converse College, University of Iowa
Genre	poetry
Notable awards	Poet Laureate of Vermont, MacArthur Fellow
Spouse	Fran Voigt

Ellen Bryant Voigt (born 1943) is an American poet. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie (1995) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been published in several national publications. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont for four years and in 2003 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Life

Voigt grew up in Chatham, Virginia, graduated from Converse College, and received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has taught at M.I.T. and Goddard College where in 1976 she developed and directed the nation's first low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Since 1981 she has taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Family

She is married to Fran Voigt formerly an administrator at Goddard College. They have two children, Dudley and Will. She resides in Cabot, Vermont.

Bibliography

• The Forces of Plenty, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780887482274
• The Lotus Flowers: Poems (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987. ISBN 0-393-02445-8)
• Two Trees W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 1992, ISBN 9780393311006
• Kyrie, W.W. Norton, 1995, ISBN 9780393037968
• (essays)
• Shadow of Heaven (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002)

Poems

• "Owl", 2013.

Awards and honors

• MacArthur Fellowship, 2015
• National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient
• Guggenheim Foundation grant recipient
• 67th Academy of American Poets Fellowship
• Vermont Council of Arts grant recipient
• Pushcart Prize
• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund fellowship
• 1999–2003 - Poet Laureate of Vermont
• 2002 - Merrill Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets
• 2002 - O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
• 2003 - Elected Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets

External links

• MacArthur Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt on the poetry of small-town life, PBS NewsHour, Mary Jo Brooks October 21, 2015
• MacArthur ‘Genius’ Ellen Bryant Voigt: ‘Poetry Is An Intelligence’, WBUR, October 12, 2015
• "Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt by Monica Mankin. Fugue Literary Journal, University of Idaho. Winter 2003/2004.
• A Lecture by Ellen Bryant Voigt Blackbird December 1, 2004.
• An Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt Blackbird March 30, 2005.
• About Ellen Bryant Voight: A Profile Ploughshares Winter 1996-97.
• "The Author" in The Lotus Flower: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1987. ISBN 0-393-02445-8.
• "Ellen Bryant Voigt". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. (retrieved 03/01/2007)