Leo Connellan

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For the Australian politician, see Leo Connellan (politician).

Leo Connellan (November 30, 1928 – February 22, 2001) was an American poet born in Portland, Maine. He grew up in Rockland, Maine,[1] spent much of his life in the environs of New York,[2] and lived at the time of his death in Sprague, Connecticut.[3] He spent considerable time traveling in the United States between the ages of 19 and 36, taking work as a salesman after his daughter was born.[4]

Connellan's rough, "everyman" lyricism won him the admiration of such poet-critics as Karl Shapiro,[5] Robert Penn Warren,[citation needed] Richard Eberhart,[6] Richard Wilbur,[7] David B. Axelrod[8] and other major voices of the twentieth century.[citation needed] Connellan won the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America[9] and served as Connecticut's second Poet Laureate from 1996 until his death.[1] His duties in this post were little defined, but Connellan said he saw promoting poetry in schools and supporting new writers as among his responsibilities.[10] From 1987 until the time of his death, he was poet-in-residence for the Connecticut State University System.[11] Connellan had himself attended the University of Maine.[12] He was designated one of Maine's most prominent poets in the Maine Literary Hall of Fame.[13]

Connellan took among his themes the fishing and lobstering industries in Maine, and the lives of New York commuters.[1] His work featured in anthologies, including Wesley McNair's The Maine Poets: An Anthology of Verse,[14] and the Curbstone Press's Poetry like bread anthology of "poets of the political imagination."[15]

List of Publications

  • The Maine Poems (1999)
  • Short Poems, City Poems, 1944--1998 (1998)
  • Provincetown and Other Poems (1995)
  • New and Collected Poems (1989)
  • The Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country: A Trilogy (1985)[16]
  • Shatterhouse (1983)
  • Massachusetts Poems (1981)
  • The Gunman and Other poems (1979)
  • Death in Lobster Land: New Poems (1978)
  • First Selected Poems (1976)[17]
  • Crossing America (1976) - Considered by many to be Connellan at his best.
  • Another Poet in New York (1975)
  • Penobscot Poems (1974)

References

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