Richard Cecil (poet)

Richard Cecil is an American poet.

Life

He married Maura Stanton, and lived in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Indiana University.

He taught at Rhodes College. He currently works at Indiana University as a teacher of creative writing and also teaches in the Hutton Honors College.^[1][2] He briefly taught at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, teaching American Poetry courses and running Poetry workshops, in 1987 and 1988.

His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry,^[3] Ploughshares, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Missouri Review,^[4] Southern Review,^[5] River Styx, Virginia Quarterly Review.

Awards

• 1998 Crab Orchard Award 2nd

Works

• "Caliban and Ariel". American Poetry Review. November 1995.
• Einstein's Brain. University of Utah Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-87480-255-9.
• Alcatraz. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55753-015-8.
• In Search of the Great Dead. Crab Orchard Review. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8093-2260-2.
• Twenty first century blues. SIU Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8093-2597-9.

Ploughshares

• "Willie Sutton's Insomnia". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-19.
• "Darwin Explains Sex in Marriage in Spring". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-20.
• "St. Anthony at Fifteen". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-19.
• "Hands in Winter". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "Dialogue". Ploughshares. Spring 1977. Archived from the original on 2005-02-06.
• "Dialogue". Ploughshares. Spring 1977. Archived from the original on 2005-02-06.
• "Genre Painting". Ploughshares. Winter 1984. Archived from the original on 2006-10-04.
• "Night School". Ploughshares. Winter 1984. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "Applications". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 2002-05-13.
• "The Call". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "Reply to the Goslar Letter". Ploughshares. Spring 1989. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "Reply San Francisco Modern Language Convention". Ploughshares. Spring 1989. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "In Search of the Great Dead". Ploughshares. Spring 1997. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
• "Why I Have No Children". Ploughshares. Winter 1997–1998. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.

External links

• Richard Cecil quotes

References

1. Archived December 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
2. https://web.archive.org/20090610051657/http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Richard-Cecil.html. Archived from the original on June 10, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/toc.html?issue=1024
4. Archived August 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
5. https://web.archive.org/20090509083626/http://www.spr.armstrong.edu:80/previous.html. Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)