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.

Page Views	Poem	Comments
48873	The New Poetry Handbook	21 Comments
13215	Eating Poetry	5 Comments
6397	Keeping Things Whole	8 Comments
5611	The Story Of Our Lives	4 Comments
5471	Giving Myself Up
5223	Courtship	3 Comments
5173	Lines For Winter	8 Comments
5085	A Piece Of The Storm
4926	Answers	1 Comment
4531	The Remains	1 Comment
4078	"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
3901	So You Say	1 Comment
3856	Coming To This
3418	The Room	1 Comment
3139	From The Long Sad Party	1 Comment
2450	My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer