Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962.[1] He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there. He has also taught at nearby Brandeis University. Frank Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.
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Works
Poetry
- Golden State (1973)
- The Book of the Body (1977)
- The Sacrifice (1983)
- In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990)
- Desire (1997) received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
- Star Dust (2005), in two sections
Other
- Editor, with David Gewanter, of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003)
Awards and honors
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award
- Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America
- The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981
- Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003
Notes
- ^ [1]Web page biography of Bidart at The Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 5, 2007
- Rae Armantrout; John Ashbery; et al. (2002). The Best American Poetry 2002. Scribner Poetry. ISBN 0-7432-0386-0.
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Frank Bidart
