Kay Ryan

Ryan in 2008

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945 in San José , California ) is an American poet who was the 16th Poet Laureate in the USA between September 2008 and May 2010 .

biography

Ryan was born in San José, California in 1945 and grew up in various cities in the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert . She studied English at the University of California, Los Angeles and earned a bachelor's (1967) and master's degree (1968). Since 1971 she has lived in Marin County , California, and has taught part-time English at the College of Marin in Kentfield .

Her first collection of poetry, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends , was published in 1983 with the help of friends. In 1985 she released her second collection, Strangely Marked Metal , this time with commercial support. She became more widely known when she received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2004. In 2005 she published her sixth collection, The Niagara River .

In July 2008, the Library of Congress announced that Ryan would be the US's 16th Poet Laureate . She replaced Charles Simic . In April 2009, the library announced that Ryan would stay this another year, so it was not replaced by WS Merwin until 2010 . In 2011 she received a MacArthur Fellowship . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2017 .

Collections

• Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (Taylor Street Press, 1983).
• Strangely Marked Metal (Copper Beech Press, 1985). ISBN 0-914278-46-0 .
• Flamingo Watching (Copper Beech Press, 1994). ISBN 0-914278-64-9 .
• Elephant Rocks (Grove Press, 1997). ISBN 0-8021-3525-0 .
• Say Uncle (Grove Press, 2000). ISBN 0-8021-3717-2 .
• The Niagara River (Grove Press, 2005). ISBN 0-8021-4222-2 .
• The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2005). ISBN 0-8021-1914-X

Web links

Commons : Kay Ryan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kay Ryan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kay Ryan: Online Resources from the Library of Congress.
• Kay Ryan Short biography at the Academy of American Poets (English)
• in poetry . in poetry .
• Poems and Biography The Poetry Foundation's Archive website
• Cynthia L. Haven, "Let There Be Lightness," via Ryan in San Francisco Magazine , October 2004.
• David Kirby, Review of The Niagara River in The New York Times , December 18, 2005.
• Elizabeth Lund, [1] in The Christian Science Monitor , August 25, 2004.
• Joan Zimmerman, website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marin Independent Journal , July 17, 2008, p. 1
2. ↑ http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-09-25-voa1.cfm ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Kay Ryan Discusses New Collection of Poems. July 26, 2006, accessed July 18, 2008 . 
4. ↑ Alison Hewitt: Kay Ryan, UCLA graduate in English, named 16th poet laureate of US July 17, 2008, accessed September 12, 2008 (English). 
5. ↑ Patricia Cohen: Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate. In: The New York Times. July 17, 2008, accessed July 18, 2008 . 
6. ↑ Ryan told Richard Halstead ( Marin Independent Journal , 2007) that, "There is a certain amount of onus on publishing one's own book. So, I wasn't terribly proud to be doing that. It was the act of a desperate woman, and it did me not a shred of good. "
7. ↑ Dana Gioia: Review: Discovering Kay Ryan. In: The Dark Horse 7. Retrieved July 18, 2008 (Winter 1998-1999). 
8. ^ Library of Congress Appoints Kay Ryan to Second Term as US Poet Laureate. The Library of Congress, April 13, 2009, accessed November 24, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Philip Kennicott: WS Merwin, Hawaii-based poet, will serve as 17th US laureate. The Washington Post , July 1, 2010, accessed July 1, 2010 . 
10. ↑ MacArthur Fellowship , macfound.org, accessed September 29, 2019.
11. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .