POET LAUREATE
Grace Cavalieri was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor on December 14, 2018.
Born in 1932. New Jersey College at Trenton, B.S. (education), 1954; Goddard University, M.A. (creative writing & education), 1975; University of Maryland, College Park. Co-founder, Washington Writers Publishing House, 1976 (editorial board, 1976-82). Founder, The Bunny and the Crocodile Press/Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., 1979. Former visiting poet, St. Mary's College of Maryland. Resident writer, Word Works, Tuscany, 1996-2003. Her works include Why I Cannot Take a Lover (1975); Body Fluids (1976); Swan Research (1979); Bliss (1986); Trenton (1990); Migrations (1995); Pinecrest Rest Haven (1998); Heart on a Leash (1998); Sit Down, Says Love (1999); Cuffed Frays and Other Works (2001); Greatest Hits, 1975-2000 (2002); What I Would Do For Love (2004); Water on the Sun: Aqua Sui Sole (2006); Anna Nicole: Poems (2008); Navy Wife (2010); Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas: A Novella in Verse (2011); Gotta Go Now (2012); Cosa Farei per Amore: Poesie dalla Voce di Mary Wollstonecraft (2013); The Man Who Got Away (2014); The Mandate of Heaven (2014); Life Upon the Wicked Stage (2015); With (2016); Other Voices, Other Lives (2017); Showboat (2019). Widow; four daughters, four grandchildren.
For reasons of health, Dr. Flint resigned as Poet Laureate in October 2000. He lived in Kensington, Maryland, where he died on January 2, 2001.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, May 25, 1953. University of Arizona, M.F.A., 1979. Resident of Catonsville, Maryland. Married; two children.
Dr. Glaser's works include A Lover's Eye (The Bunny & Crocodile Press), and In the Men's Room and Other Poems, which won the 1996 Painted Bride Quarterly chapbook competition. His most recent collection of poems, Being a Father, was published in July 2004. Dr. Glaser also has edited two anthologies of Maryland poets, The Cooke Book (1989) and Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millennial Anthology. He has received the Homer Dodge Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Columbia Merit Award from the Poetry Committee of the Greater Washington, D.C. area for his service to poetry.
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. Denison University, B.A.; Kent State University, M.A., Ph.D. Resident of St. Mary's City, Maryland. Member, Maryland Humanities Council, 2012-. Married; five children.
He has written nine books of poetry, including Old Heart (2008); Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2000); The Marriage in the Trees (1997); Boy on the Step (1989); Summer Celestial (1983); Out-of-the-Body Travel (1977); Giraffe (1974); How the Plains Indians Got Horses (1973); and In the Outer Dark (1970). His work also includes Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (2003), a collection of essays, and Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (2008).
Plumly's work has been recognized through eight Pushcart Prizes, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 2001, the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Paterson Poetry Prize in 2007.
Born in Barnesville, Ohio, May 23, 1939. Wilmington College, B.A., 1962; Ohio University, M.A., Ph.D. Died in Frederick, Maryland, April 11, 2019.
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Grace Cavalieri, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2018-.
Roland Flint (1934-2001) was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor in September 1995. A nationally recognized poet, Dr. Flint taught English at Georgetown University from 1968 to 1997. He retired as professor of English in 1997. His works include And Morning (1975); The Honey and Other Poems for Rosalind (1976); Say It (1979); Resuming Green: Selected Poems, 1965-1982 (1983); Sicily (1987); Stubborn (1990); Hearing Voices (1991); Pigeon (1991); Pigeon in the Night (1994); and Easy: Poems (1999).
Michael Collier was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor in February 2001. A former Guggenheim Foundation fellow and former director of poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Michael Collier joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1985. Currently, he directs the University's creative writing program. Since 1994, he also has been director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His works include The Neighbor (1995), The Folded Heart (1989), The Clasp (1986), and most recently, The Ledge (2000), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
On August 2, 2004, Michael S. Glaser was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor. Dr. Glaser has served as head of the Division of Arts and Letters and chair of the English Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he began teaching in 1970. He is a professor of English and co-founded and directs the College's biannual Literary Festival and the annual Voices reading series. For over 20 years, he has served as a Maryland State Arts Council poet-in-the-schools and also has served twice as a guest artist at the Maryland Artist and Teacher's Institute.
On October 1, 2009, Stanley Plumly was named Poet Laureate of Maryland by the Governor. A Maryland Distinguished University Professor since 1998, Mr. Plumly founded the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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