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'''Jorie Graham''' ({{nee|'''Pepper'''}}; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The ] called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation."<ref name="poetryfoundation" /> She replaced poet ] as ] of Rhetoric and Oratory at ], becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position.<ref name="poetryfoundation"/> She won the ] (1996) for ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'' and was chancellor of the ] from 1997 to 2003. She won the 2013 ] in Italy.


==Early life and education==
'''Jorie Graham''' (born ], ]), ] ] and the editor of numerous volumes of poetry.
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Graham was born in ] in 1950 to ], a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for '']'' magazine, and the sculptor ]. She and her brother ] were raised in ], ]. She studied philosophy at the ] in Paris, but was expelled for participating in student protests. She completed her undergraduate work as a film major at ], and became interested in poetry during that time. (She claims that her interest was sparked while walking past M.L. Rosenthal's classroom and overhearing the last couplet of "]" ). After working as a secretary, she later went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from the famed ] at the ].


==Life== ==Career==
Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including notable volumes like ''The End of Beauty'', ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'', ''Sea Change'', ''P L A C E'', ''From the New World (Poems 1976-2014)'', ''Fast'', and ''Runaway''. She has also edited two anthologies, ''Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language'' (1996) and ''The Best American Poetry 1990''. She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including ''Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry'' (2005). The Poetry Foundation considers Graham's third book, ''The End of Beauty'' (1987), to have been a "watershed" book in which Graham first used the longer verse line for which she is best known.<ref name="poetryfoundation">{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jorie-graham|title=Jorie Graham|date=October 18, 2020|access-date=May 8, 2010|website=Poetry Foundation}}</ref> Graham's many honors include a ] (1985), the John D. and Catherine T. ], an ] Fellowship, The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The ] and the Whiting Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jorie-graham#/|title=whiting awards {{!}} Jorie Graham - 1985 Winner in Poetry|work=whiting.org|access-date=2017-10-12}}</ref> ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'' won the 1996 ] for Poetry. Her collection of poetry ''P L A C E'' won the 2012 ] for best collection, becoming the first American woman ever to win one of the UK's most prestigious poetry accolades.<ref name=flood2012>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/01/forwardprizeforpoetry-poetry |title=Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize |work=] |author=Alison Flood |date=1 October 2012 |access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> ''P L A C E'' was also shortlisted for the 2012 ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/23/ts-eliot-prize-poetry-shortlist |title=TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist |work=] |author=Alison Flood |date=23 October 2012 |access-date=23 October 2012}}</ref> In 2013, Graham became only the third American to win the International ] Prize. In 2015, ''From the New World: Selected Poems 1976-2014''—a collection from all prior eleven volumes plus new work—was published by ]/]. In 2016 ''From the New World'' won the ''LA Times Book Award'' for poetry''.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-festival-of-books-winners-20160331-snap-htmlstory.html|title=Here are the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners|last=Lewis|first=David|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-10-12|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>


In 2017, Graham received the Wallace Stevens Award from the ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/stanza/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2017-american-poets-prizes|title=The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2017 American Poets Prizes|last=nparedes|date=2017-08-15|website=The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2017 American Poets Prizes|language=en|access-date=2017-10-12|archive-date=August 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831000926/https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/stanza/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2017-american-poets-prizes|url-status=dead}}</ref> Given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry, recipients are nominated and elected by a majority vote of the Academy's Board of Chancellors. She won the 2018 ] for ''Fast''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/arts/jorie-graham-bobbitt-poetry-prize.html|title=Jorie Graham Wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize|access-date=2018-11-02|language=en}}</ref>
Jorie Graham was born in ] in 1951 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for '']'' magazine, and the sculptor ] (born ], ], ], ]). She was raised in ], ]. She studied philosophy at the ], but was expelled for participating in student protests. She completed her undergraduate work as a film major at ], and became interested in poetry during that time. (She claims that her interest was sparked while walking past M.L. Rosenthal's classroom and overhearing the last couplet of "]" ). She later went on to receive her MFA from the famed ].


About Jorie Graham, Academy of American Poets Chancellor ] said: "Jorie Graham's masterful poems traverse almost four decades of inquiry into what it means to be in relation. Her work pulls forward our mythical, historical, environmental, and personal narratives in order to inhabit our most ordinary and collective experiences. Hers is the patience of the return; repetition in her work unearths the nuances of fundamental desires to live, to love, to be. Clear-eyed and with a scope that encompasses what is both known and unknown, her 15 collections have built towards a brilliant insistence on presence."<ref name=":0" />
Graham was married to and divorced from ], now publisher of the '']''.


She served as a Chancellor of The ] from 1997 to 2003.
She married the poet ] in 1983 and the two had a daughter, Emily, in 1984.


==Books and Awards== ==Personal life==
Graham has held a longtime faculty position at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has held an appointment at ] since 1999. Graham replaced ] and poet ] as Boylston professor in Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language. She became the first woman to be awarded this position.<ref name="poetryfoundation" /><ref name="orr">David Orr, "ON POETRY; Jorie Graham, Superstar," 'New York Times ''Sunday Book Review,'' April 24, 2005; at the Time website (accessed March 16, 2008)</ref>
She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including ''Never'' (HarperCollins, 2002); ''Swarm'' (2000); ''The Errancy'' (1997); ''The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994'', which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; ''Materialism'' (1993); ''Region of Unlikeness'' (1991); ''The End of Beauty'' (1987); ''Erosion'' (1983); and ''Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts'' (1980). She has also edited two anthologies, ''Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language'' (1996) and ''The Best American Poetry 1990''. Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.


Graham was married to and divorced from publishing heir William Graham, brother of ], the former publisher of '']''. She then married the poet ] in 1983 and they divorced in 1999. She married poet and painter ], in 2000.<ref name="LAtimes">Tomas Alex Tizon, "In Search of Poetic Justice," ''Los Angeles Times'', June 17, 2005. Available at the (subscription needed). Text is available at {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725143644/http://www.newpoetryreview.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=346&sid=7579d596987e6e68e16f022fd314ce22 |date=2012-07-25 }} or (accessed 16 March 2007)</ref>
==Poetry==


==Poetry competition controversy==
Examples available the .
In January 1999, she judged the ] Contemporary Poetry series contest, which selected the manuscript "O Wheel" from ], her future husband, as the first-place winner. Graham noted that at that time she was not married to Sacks, and that while she had "felt awkward" about giving the award to her then-boyfriend, she had first cleared it with the series editor, ].<ref name="LAtimes"/><ref>Kevin Larimer, "The Contester: Who's Doing What to Keep Them Clean", ''Poets & Writers Magazine,'' July/August 2005. Formerly available at {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119002839/http://www.pw.org/mag/0511/newslarimer.htm |date=2007-11-19 }} (page currently offline)</ref> As a result of the critical media coverage<ref name="Foetry-Georgia"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613173925/http://foetry.com/wp/?page_id=80 |date=2007-06-13 }}</ref><ref name="chronicle">Thomas Bartlett, "Rhyme and Unreason," ''Chronicle of Higher Education,'' May 20, 2005, (accessed March 16, 2005)</ref><ref name="guardian">John Sutherland, "American foetry," ''The Guardian'', Monday July 4, 2005 </ref> Ramke resigned from the editorship of the series. Graham subsequently announced that she would no longer serve as a judge in contests<ref name="LAtimes"/><ref name="chronicle"/> although she continued to do so after 2008.<ref>Graham was selected to judge the 2008 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331190111/http://www.92y.org/content/literary_programs.asp#3 |date=2008-03-31 }}, with deadline January 18, 2008; and judged the Baker Nord Poetry Competition .</ref> Throughout the course of the contest, Ramke had insisted that judges of the contest be kept secret, and until ] obtained the names of judges via The Open Records Act, the conflict of interest had been undisclosed. A statement now adopted in the rules of many competitions (including the University of Georgia Contest) to prevent judges from selecting students is often referred to as the "Jorie Graham rule".<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="globe">Alex Beam, "Website polices rhymes and misdemeanors," ''Boston Globe'', March 31, 2005, </ref><ref name="Foetry-graham">{{Cite web |url=http://foetry.com/wp/?page_id=85 |title=Foetry page on Jorie Graham |access-date=2008-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070719050540/http://foetry.com/wp/?page_id=85 |archive-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


The Foetry site also contended that Graham, as a judge at Georgia and other contests, had awarded prizes to at least five of her former students from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, including ], ], and ].<ref name="Foetry-graham"/> Graham's reply to this was that over years of teaching she has had over 1400 students, many of whom went on to continue writing poetry, that no rules had prohibited her from awarding prizes to former students, and that in each case she claims to have selected the strongest work.<ref name="LAtimes"/>
==Reviews==


==Awards==
Selected Reviews of Graham's most recent book of poetry, ''Overlord'':
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Year
!Title
!Award
!Result
!Ref.
|-
!1985
|
|] for Poetry
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search All Winners |url=https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/search |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Whiting Awards}}</ref>
|-
!1991
|''Region of Unlikeness''
|]
|Finalist
|<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Winner and Nominees |url=https://www.awardsarchive.com/1991-los-angeles-times-book-prize-poetry-winner-and-nominees/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Awards Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
!1994
|''Materialism: Poems''
|]
|Finalist
|<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Winner and Nominees |url=https://www.awardsarchive.com/1994-los-angeles-times-book-prize-poetry-winner-and-nominees/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Awards Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |1996
| rowspan="2" |''Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994''
|]
|Finalist
|<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Winner and Nominees |url=https://www.awardsarchive.com/1996-los-angeles-times-book-prize-poetry-winner-and-nominees/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Awards Archive |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-04-14 |title=Awards: L.A. Times Book; Griffin Poetry |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2732 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=About Jorie Graham {{!}} Academy of American Poets |url=https://poets.org/poet/jorie-graham |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Academy of American Poets}}</ref>
|-
!2008
|''Sea Change: Poems''
|]
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Winner and Nominees |url=https://www.awardsarchive.com/2008-los-angeles-times-book-prize-poetry-winner-and-nominees/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Awards Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |2012
| rowspan="2" |''P L A C E''
|]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-10-02 |title=Awards: Thurber Winner; Forward Prize for Poetry |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1840 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
|]
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-10-26 |title=Awards: T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1857 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
!2012
|
|]
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-07-25 |title=Awards: Neustadt International Finalists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3543 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
|-
!2015
|''From the New World: Poems 1976–2014''
|]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Winner and Nominees |url=https://www.awardsarchive.com/2015-los-angeles-times-book-prize-poetry-winner-and-nominees/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=Awards Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
!2017
|
|]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-08-22 |title=Awards: PEN Center USA; Academy of American Poets |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3070 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2017 American Poets Prizes {{!}} poets.org |url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2017-american-poets-prizes |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Academy of American Poets}}</ref>
|}


== Publications ==
''Publishers Weekly'' (US), 24th January 2005
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=== Poetry ===
The title for Graham's best book in at least a decade introduces several obsessions at once: it's the code name for American plans on D-Day, a sign for the absence - or perhaps presence - of an omnipotent God, and a term for arrogant nations (the US among them) who have forgotten, or never learned, the lessons of the Greatest Generation. Graham, who won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for ''The Dream of the Unified Field'', pursues familiar metaphysical questions through the long lines and longer sentences of meditations such as 'Upon Emergence': "Have I that to which to devote my / self? Have I devotion?"; a series of poems with the title 'Praying' take the question to its ends, often ending up angry, guilty or shocked. One anecdotal poem depicts her trying and failing to feed a homeless man; a more abstract effort imagines "a horrible labyrinth, this / history of ours. No / opening." Most striking of all are works closely tied to D-Day, to Normandy (where Graham now spends part of each year) and to servicemen's own testimony, which casts contemporary fears into ironic relief: "Are you at war or at peace," Graham asks, "or are war and peace / playing their little game over your dead body?" The vague, notebook-like qualities of Graham's last few efforts baffled some admirers, who will likely, and rightly, see these clear and powerful poems as a return to form.
;Collections
* {{cite book |title=Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ooQjMg81N3cC|publisher=Princeton University Press|date= 1980|isbn= 978-0-691-01335-0 }}
* {{cite book |title=Erosion|url=https://archive.org/details/erosion00grah_1|url-access=registration|quote=Jorie Graham.|publisher=Princeton University Press|date= 1983|isbn= 978-0-691-01405-0 }}
* {{cite book |title=The End of Beauty|url=https://archive.org/details/endofbeauty0000grah|url-access=registration|publisher=Ecco Press|date= 1987|isbn= 978-0-88001-130-3 }}
* {{cite book |title=Region of Unlikeness|url=https://archive.org/details/regionofunlikene0000grah|url-access=registration|date=1991|publisher=Ecco Press|isbn= 978-0-88001-290-4 }}
* {{cite book |title=Materialism|date=1993|publisher= Ecco|isbn= 978-0-88001-617-9 }}
* {{cite book |title=The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994|publisher=HarperCollins|date=1995|isbn=978-0-88001-476-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamofunifiedfi00grah}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=1995-10-30 |title=Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780880014380 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=The Errancy|publisher=Ecco Press|date=1997|isbn=978-0-88001-528-8|url=https://archive.org/details/errancypoems00grah}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=1997-06-30 |title=Errancy by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780880015288 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Photographs and Poems|date=1998|others=Photographs ]|publisher=Scalo }}
* {{cite book |title=Swarm|date=2000|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-093509-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/swarm00jori}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-11-29 |title=Swarm: Poems by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780880016957 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Never|date=2002|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn= 978-0-06-008472-1 }}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-02-25 |title=NEVER by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780060084714 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Overlord|date=2005|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn= 978-0-06-075811-0 }}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-01-24 |title=OVERLORD by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780060745653 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Sea Change|date=2008|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn= 978-0-06-153718-9 }}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-17 |title=Sea Chage by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780061537172 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=P L A C E|date=2012|publisher=Ecco Press}} {{ISBN|9780062190642}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-21 |title=Place by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062190642 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=From The New World: Poems 1976-2014|date=2015|publisher=Ecco Press}} {{ISBN|9780062315403}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-19 |title=From the New World: Poems 1976–2014 by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062315403 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Fast|date=2017|publisher=Ecco Press|isbn= 9780062663481}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-03-27 |title=Fast: Poems by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062663481 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Runaway|date=2020|publisher=Ecco Press|isbn= 9780063036703}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-16 |title=Runaway by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063036703 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title= The Last Human |date=2022|publisher=Copper Canyon|isbn= 9781556596605}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-15 |title= the Last Human by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781556596605 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=To 2040 |date=2023|publisher=Copper Canyon|isbn= 9781556596773}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-13 |title=To 2040 by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781556596773 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
;Anthologies (edited)
* {{cite book |title=The Best American Poetry 1990 |editor1=Graham, Jorie |editor2=David Lehman |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Collier Books |date=1990 <!--|isbn=978-0-02-032785-1-->}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=1990-10-01 |title=The Best American Poetry 1990 by Jorie Graham |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780020327851 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=]}}</ref>
* {{cite book |editor1=Graham, Jorie |title=Earth took of earth : 100 great poems of the English language |publisher=Ecco Press |date= 1996 <!--|isbn= 978-0-88001-432-8-->}}
;List of poems
{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
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!width=25%|Title
!|Year
!|First published
!|Reprinted/collected
|-
|I catch sight of the now
|2021
|{{cite journal |author=Graham, Jorie |date=January 4–11, 2021 |title=I catch sight of the now |journal=The New Yorker |volume=96 |issue=43 |pages=36–37 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/i-catch-sight-of-the-now <!--|access-date=2023-06-04-->}}
|
|-
|I
|2021
|{{cite journal |author=Graham, Jorie |date=September 27, 2021 |title=I |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=30 |pages=76–77 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/i <!--|access-date=2023-03-22-->}}
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=== Essays and other contributions===
''Library Journal'', February 2005
*Contributor to ''A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (''Gingko Library, 2019). {{ISBN|9781909942288}}


===Critical studies and reviews of Graham's work===
Graham's ninth poetry collection is arguably her most impassioned, if not anxious, meditation on the nature of human presence and the possibility of belief in a diminished, fallen world where "The aim is to become / something broken / that cannot be broken further." Frenetic, one-sided conversations with a God or gods ("Your god might be the wrong one for the circumstances") sweep across the width of the page in long, self-questioning, and self-answering waves, as if the poet's mind were possessed by a relentless insomnia. Tracing the metaphysical scar tissue between raw desire to locate meaning and validation in the physical universe ("It's me I shout to the tree outside the window / don't you know it's me, a me") and the urge to withdraw ("We can pull back / from the being of our bodies...we can be absent, no one can tell."). But the crisis of selfhood is a difficult subject to manage, and Graham's cascading ruminations can turn too theatrical and self-conscious ("Every morning now I am putting these words down / in the place of other words"), as the poet cannot escape the knowledge that her private Gethsemene is, in fact, a public garden. Recommended for academic library poetry collections.
* Helen Vendler. ''The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham'' (1995)
* Thomas Gardner, ''Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry'' (1999)
* Daniel McGuiness, "Jorie Graham in Stitches" and "The Long Line in Jorie Graham and Charles Wright," in '','' State University of New York Press, Albany NY (2001)
* Catherine Karaguezian, ''No Image There and the Gaze Remains: The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham'' (2005)
* Thomas Gardner (ed.), ''Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry'' (2005)


==References==
Donna Seaman, ''Booklist''
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==External links==
In her previous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''The Dream of the Unified Field'' (1995), Graham explores the divide between perception and reality. In her stunning ninth collection, she is still an agile metaphysician, but her poetic self now kneels with her face in her hands, humbled by illness, war, and the ravaged earth. Forthright, compassionate, and ironic, Graham has crafted poems of lyrical steeliness and cauterizing beauty. The book's title refers to "Operation Overlord," the Allied offensive that culminated in the landing on Normandy's Omaha Beach, and that, for Graham, inspired exquisite and devastating tributes to soldiers. She then links the past to the grim post-9/11 present, where one god is pitted against another, a taxicab ride reveals a tangle of cultural conflicts and personal tragedies, and environmental decimation looms. Graham writes with breathtaking precision about the helplessness one feels in the face of suffering, but because "we cannot ask another to live / without hope," and because the poet's "great desire to praise" remains undaunted, Graham takes up the pen not only to eulogize but also to express "gratitude for the trees / and the birds they house."
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'There is a buoyancy in Graham's poetry, a freshness of vision which is rare in contemporary poetry.'
Roger Caldwell, ''Times Literary Supplement'', 27th June 2003

'After each new book by Graham, I wonder what she will do next. Her courage in remaking her style over the years is exemplary.'
Helen Vendler, ''London Review of Books'', 23rd January 2003.

'...one of our most highly imaginative and innovative poets. Her speculative and sensual poetry echoes an aesthetic and cultural past but is, truly, like nothing we've seen before.'
David St. John, ''The Los Angeles Times'', 1996.

'They tell us that she teaches at Harvard. They don't say what. Let's hope it is something useful, like nuclear physics, molecular biology, or chiropody. Something hot like that. If it is English, or Creative Writing, god help the future teachers and writers of America.'
Lolita Lark on ''Swarm'', in ''RALPH (The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities)'' Vol XXI, No 3

==The Foetry.com Controversy==

The website has accused Graham of cronyism and favoritism in judging poetry contests, awarding prizes and publication to former students and lovers based on personal relationships rather than literary merit. Foetry's own methods have been called into question ( or which directly references the Jorie Graham controversy). However, an Open Records Act request forced the University of Georgia Press to reveal that Graham judged the 1999 University of George Contemporary Poetry Series contest. The significance is that she had chosen Peter Sacks, whom she would marry in 2000. The choice raised a number of ethical questions, leading to the retirement of Bin Ramke, editor of the Contemporary Poetry Series . Because the Open Records request revealed that Ramke had pushed for the selection of Sacks before all manuscripts had been read and Graham had "concurred," some members of Foetry.com cited U.S. Code regarding mail fraud.


§ 1346. Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.

==Bibliography==
* Overlord, 2005
* Never
* Swarm
* The Errancy
* The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
* Materialism
* Region of Unlikeness
* The End of Beauty
* Erosion
* Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, 1974

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American poet (born 1950)

Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham, speaking at a poetry reading in 2007
BornJorie Pepper
(1950-05-09) May 9, 1950 (age 74)
New York City, U.S.
EducationNew York University (BFA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupationpoet
Spouses
Children1
Parents
Websitejoriegraham.com

Jorie Graham (née Pepper; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She won the 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Early life and education

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Graham was born in New York City in 1950 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Stoll Pepper. She and her brother John Randolph Pepper were raised in Rome, Italy. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, but was expelled for participating in student protests. She completed her undergraduate work as a film major at New York University, and became interested in poetry during that time. (She claims that her interest was sparked while walking past M.L. Rosenthal's classroom and overhearing the last couplet of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ). After working as a secretary, she later went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Career

Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including notable volumes like The End of Beauty, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, Sea Change, P L A C E, From the New World (Poems 1976-2014), Fast, and Runaway. She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry (2005). The Poetry Foundation considers Graham's third book, The End of Beauty (1987), to have been a "watershed" book in which Graham first used the longer verse line for which she is best known. Graham's many honors include a Whiting Award (1985), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Award. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her collection of poetry P L A C E won the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, becoming the first American woman ever to win one of the UK's most prestigious poetry accolades. P L A C E was also shortlisted for the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2013, Graham became only the third American to win the International Nonino Prize. In 2015, From the New World: Selected Poems 1976-2014—a collection from all prior eleven volumes plus new work—was published by HarperCollins/Ecco Press. In 2016 From the New World won the LA Times Book Award for poetry.

In 2017, Graham received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry, recipients are nominated and elected by a majority vote of the Academy's Board of Chancellors. She won the 2018 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Fast.

About Jorie Graham, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Claudia Rankine said: "Jorie Graham's masterful poems traverse almost four decades of inquiry into what it means to be in relation. Her work pulls forward our mythical, historical, environmental, and personal narratives in order to inhabit our most ordinary and collective experiences. Hers is the patience of the return; repetition in her work unearths the nuances of fundamental desires to live, to love, to be. Clear-eyed and with a scope that encompasses what is both known and unknown, her 15 collections have built towards a brilliant insistence on presence."

She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.

Personal life

Graham has held a longtime faculty position at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has held an appointment at Harvard University since 1999. Graham replaced Nobel Laureate and poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston professor in Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language. She became the first woman to be awarded this position.

Graham was married to and divorced from publishing heir William Graham, brother of Donald E. Graham, the former publisher of The Washington Post. She then married the poet James Galvin in 1983 and they divorced in 1999. She married poet and painter Peter M. Sacks, in 2000.

Poetry competition controversy

In January 1999, she judged the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series contest, which selected the manuscript "O Wheel" from Peter M. Sacks, her future husband, as the first-place winner. Graham noted that at that time she was not married to Sacks, and that while she had "felt awkward" about giving the award to her then-boyfriend, she had first cleared it with the series editor, Bin Ramke. As a result of the critical media coverage Ramke resigned from the editorship of the series. Graham subsequently announced that she would no longer serve as a judge in contests although she continued to do so after 2008. Throughout the course of the contest, Ramke had insisted that judges of the contest be kept secret, and until Foetry.com obtained the names of judges via The Open Records Act, the conflict of interest had been undisclosed. A statement now adopted in the rules of many competitions (including the University of Georgia Contest) to prevent judges from selecting students is often referred to as the "Jorie Graham rule".

The Foetry site also contended that Graham, as a judge at Georgia and other contests, had awarded prizes to at least five of her former students from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, including Joshua Clover, Mark Levine, and Geoffrey Nutter. Graham's reply to this was that over years of teaching she has had over 1400 students, many of whom went on to continue writing poetry, that no rules had prohibited her from awarding prizes to former students, and that in each case she claims to have selected the strongest work.

Awards

Year Title Award Result Ref.
1985 Whiting Award for Poetry Winner
1991 Region of Unlikeness Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist
1994 Materialism: Poems Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist
1996 Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner
2008 Sea Change: Poems Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist
2012 P L A C E Forward Prize for Poetry Winner
T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist
2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature Finalist
2015 From the New World: Poems 1976–2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Winner
2017 Wallace Stevens Award Winner

Publications

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Poetry

Collections
Anthologies (edited)
  • Graham, Jorie & David Lehman, eds. (1990). The Best American Poetry 1990. Collier Books.
  • Graham, Jorie, ed. (1996). Earth took of earth : 100 great poems of the English language. Ecco Press.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
I catch sight of the now 2021 Graham, Jorie (January 4–11, 2021). "I catch sight of the now". The New Yorker. 96 (43): 36–37.
I 2021 Graham, Jorie (September 27, 2021). "I". The New Yorker. 97 (30): 76–77.

Essays and other contributions

  • Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019). ISBN 9781909942288

Critical studies and reviews of Graham's work

  • Helen Vendler. The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (1995)
  • Thomas Gardner, Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry (1999)
  • Daniel McGuiness, "Jorie Graham in Stitches" and "The Long Line in Jorie Graham and Charles Wright," in Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, State University of New York Press, Albany NY (2001)
  • Catherine Karaguezian, No Image There and the Gaze Remains: The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham (2005)
  • Thomas Gardner (ed.), Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry (2005)

References

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  5. Lewis, David. "Here are the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
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