Ellen Bryant Voigt

Award-winning poet Ellen Bryant Voigt visits the Wexner Center for a Writer's Reading presented by Ohio State's Creative Writing Program. Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of six collections of poetry: Shadow of Heaven (2002), a finalist for the National Book Award; Kyrie (1995), a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award; Two Trees (1992); The Lotus Flowers (1987); The Forces of Plenty (1983); and Claiming Kin (1976). She has also written a collection of essays on craft of poetry, The Flexible Lyric (2001). Voigt's awards and honors include an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize. She was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003.

Voigt has taught in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College since 1981. In 1976, she developed and directed the nation's first low-residency writing program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont--a design for graduate M.F.A. study that has since been emulated by many other colleges and universities. She lives in Cabot, Vermont, and is the Vermont State Poet.

Presented by Ohio State's Creative Writing Program, Department of English. Cosponsored by the Wexner Center.