Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham, speaking at a poetry reading in 2007
Born
Jorie Pepper

(1950-05-09) May 9, 1950 (age 74)
EducationNew York University (BFA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupationpoet
Spouses
  • William Graham
    (divorced)
  • (m. 1983; div. 1999)
  • (m. 2000)
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."[1] 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.[1] 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.

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