Mark Strand (1934 - )

Mark Strand, former Poet Laureate of the United States, has won numerous grants and awards, including the Bobbitt and Bollingen Poetry Prizes, a MacArthur fellowship, and Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and NEA grants. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One, which was published in 1999. Mark's eight other volumes of poetry include Reasons for Moving, The Monument, The Continuous Life and Dark Harbor.

He has also published a collection of stories, numerous translations, and several anthologies. In addition, Mark has written extensively on contemporary art, including a book on the painter Edward Hopper. Mark was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was raised and educated in the United States. He currently teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

	Poem	Comments
	The New Poetry Handbook	21 Comments
	Keeping Things Whole	8 Comments
	Lines For Winter	8 Comments
	Eating Poetry	5 Comments
	The Story Of Our Lives	4 Comments
	Courtship	3 Comments
	Answers	1 Comment
	From The Long Sad Party	1 Comment
	So You Say	1 Comment
	The Remains	1 Comment
	The Room	1 Comment
	"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
	A Piece Of The Storm
	Coming To This
	Giving Myself Up
	My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer