Brigit Pegeen Kelly is the author of The
Orchard (BOA Editions, 2004); Song (1995),
which was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection
of The Academy of American Poets; and To The Place of Trumpets (1987),
which was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger
Poets. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals,
including The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review,
and The
Yale Review, and her work was chosen for the 1993 and 1994
volumes of
The Best American Poetry. Her many honors include a "Discovery"/The
Nation Award, the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of
America, a Pushcart Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry
Northwest, and a Whiting Writers Award, as well as fellowships
from the Illinois State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment
for the Arts, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. She is a
professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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