Albert Goldbarth received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle campus, in 1969 and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1971. He has published more than twenty-seven collections of poetry, including The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007 (Graywolf Press, 2007); Saving Lives (2001) and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (1991), both of which won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry (Goldbarth is the only poet to have received the award twice); Popular Culture (1990), which received the OSU Press/The Journal Award; and Jan. 31 (1974), which was nominated in 1975 for the National Book Award.
Goldbarth has also written several collections of essays, including Many Circles (Graywolf Press, 2001), winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, A Sympathy of Souls (1990) and Great Topics of the World (1994), and a novel, Pieces of Payne (Graywolf Press, 2001). His work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including The Harvard Book of Contemporary Poetry (Harvard University Press, 1985).
Goldbarth's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.
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