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
50097	The New Poetry Handbook	21 Comments
14361	Eating Poetry	5 Comments
7634	Keeping Things Whole	8 Comments
6380	Giving Myself Up
6332	The Story Of Our Lives	4 Comments
5864	Lines For Winter	9 Comments
5823	Courtship	3 Comments
5662	A Piece Of The Storm
5583	Answers	1 Comment
5209	The Remains	1 Comment
4639	"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
4486	So You Say	1 Comment
4387	Coming To This
4010	The Room	1 Comment
3643	From The Long Sad Party	1 Comment
2800	My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer