Jorie Graham | |
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.png) Jorie Graham, speaking at a poetry reading in 2007 | |
| Born | Jorie Pepper May 9, 1950 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | New York University (BFA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
| Occupation | poet |
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| Children | 1 |
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| Website | joriegraham |
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.