Robert Morgan

Department of English:
Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel. (607) 255-3503
Fax (607) 255-6661
E-mail: rrm4@cornell.edu

Home Address:
1608 Hanshaw Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Tel. (607) 257-3416

Born:
October 3, 1944, Hendersonville, North Carolina

Education:
Honorary Doctor of Letters, UNC Chapel Hill, 2006
MFA, UNC Greensboro, 1968
BA in English, UNC Chapel Hill, 1965

Marital Status:
Married, three children

Employment:
Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Visiting Writer, Appalachian State University, Fall 2007
Whichard Professor, East Carolina University, Spring 2005
Visting Professor, Duke University, Spring 2004
Writer-in-Residence, Furman University, Spring 2004
Blackburn Visiting Writer, Duke University, Spring 2003
Visiting Writer, Furman University, Winter 2002
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Writing, Appalachian State University, Fall 2000
McGee Visiting Writer, Davidson College, Spring 1998
Kappa Alpha Professor of English, Cornell University 1992-
Professor of English, Cornell University 1984-92
Associate professor, Cornell University 1978-84
Assistant Professor, Cornell University 1973-78
Lecturer in English, Cornell University 1971-73
Self-employed writer, farmer, housepainter 1969-71
Instructor in English, Salem College 1968-69
Teaching Assistant, UNC-Greensboro 1967-68

Publications:
Boone: A Biography. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2007
The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems. LSU Press. 2004
Brave Enemies. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2003
This Rock. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2001
Topsoil Road: Poems. LSU Press. 2000
The Balm of Gilead Tree and Other Stories. Gnomon Press. 1999
Gap Creek. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 1999.
The Hinterlands. paperback. Blair Publishers. 1999
The Truest Pleasure. paperback. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 1998
Wild Peavines: New Poems. Gnomon Press. 1996
The Truest Pleasure. Algonquin Books. 1995
The Hinterlands. Algonquin Books. 1994
Good Measure: Essays and Interviews on Poetry. Louisiana State University Press. 1993
The Mountains Won’t Remember Us. Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. 1992
Green River. New and Selected Poems. Wesleyan University Press. 1991
Sigodlin. Wesleyan University Press. 1990
The Blue Valleys: Stories. Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. 1989
At the Edge of the Orchard Country. Wesleyan University Press. 1987
Bronze Age. Iron Mountain Press. 1981
Groundwork. Gnomon Press. 1979
Trunk & Thicket. L’Epervier Press. 1978
Land Diving. LSU Press. 1976
Red Owl. W.W. Norton. 1972
The Voice in the Crosshairs. Angelfish Press. 1971
Zirconia Poems. Lillabulero Press. 1969

Recent poems have appeared in magazines such as Poetry, Paris Review, Antaeus, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and in many anthologies, including A Geography of Poets, The Generation of 2000, The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, Strong Measures, Western Wind, Bedford Introduction to Literature, Bedford Introduction to Poetry, Approaching Poetry, and The Book of Luminous Things. Essays and articles on poetry have been published in Epoch, Parnassus, The Nation, Bluefish, American Poetry Review, and Poetry Pilot; short stories in Greensboro Review, Southern Review, Epoch, St. Andrews Review, and many other magazines; and a craft interview included in the Brockport Writers Forum video series.

Secondary work:
“Coming Out From Under Calvinism: Religious Motifs in Robert Morgan’s Poetry.” John Lang. Shenandoah. Fall 1992.
“Robert Morgan 1944-” Roger E. Jones. Contemporary Authors. DLB. Gale Research. Vol. 120. 1992. pp. 213-219.
“Robert Morgan 1944-” Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series. Gale Research. Vol. 20. pp. 257-289.
Issue devoted to Robert Morgan of Iron Mountain Review. 1990.
Chapter devoted to Robert Morgan in Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry. Rita Sims Quillen. Appalachian Consortium Press. 1989. pp. 50-62.
“At the Edge of the Orchard Country.” Ted Kooser. Prairie Schooner. Summer 1989. pp. 126-129.
“Pieces of the Morgenland: The Recent Achievements in Robert Morgan’s Poetry.” P.H Liotta. Southern Literary Journal. Spring 1990. pp. 1-9.
“Recovering Pieces of the Morgenland.” Robert Schultz. Virqinia Quarterly Review. Winter 1988. pp. 176-188.
“Groundwork.” Jim Wayne Miller. McGill Literary Annual. 1981. pp. 388-390.
“Robert Morgan’s Pelagian Georgics: Twelve Essays.” William Harmon. Parnassus. Fall/Winter 1981. pp. 5-30.
“Land Diving.” William Matthews. Meridian. One. pp. 8-10.
“Robert Morgan: A Bibliographical Chronicle, 1963-1981.” Stuart Wright. Bulletin of Bibliography. Vol. 39. No. 3. pp. 121-131.
“A Conversation with Robert Morgan. Suzanne Booker. Carolina Quarterly. Spring 1985. pp. 13-22.

Grants and Awards:
R. Hunt Parker Award, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, November 2007.
Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 2007.
Gap Creek received the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for 2000, and was selected as a Notable Book by The New York Times. It was an Oprah Book Club selection for January 2000, and a New York Times Bestseller. The Association of Appalachian Writers named it Book of the Year for 2000.
The Truest Pleasure was selected as a New York Times Notable Book.
The Truest Pleasure was first runner-up for The Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
The Truest Pleasure was listed by Publishers Weekly as one of the outstanding books of 1995.
Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities, Fall 1992.
North Carolina Award in Literature, 1991.
James G. Hanes Poetry Prize Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1991.
The Blue Valleys nominated for First Fiction Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Fellowship at Bellagio Conference Center, 1989.
Greensboro Review Amon Liner Poetry Prize, 1989.
Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize, 1988.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988-89.
Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry, International Writers Retreat, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, 1986.
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1986.
Eunice Tietjens Prize, Poetry, 1979.
Southern Poetry Review Prize, 1975.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, 1968, 1974, 1982, 1987.

Courses taught at Cornell:
Introductory creative writing, poetry workshop, narrative writing, senior honors seminar in creative writing, graduate workshop in poetry, undergraduate and graduate courses in 19th century American poetry, Whitman and Dickinson, Frost, Eliot and Stevens, contemporary British and American poetry, American Short Story, Emerson and Poe.

Poetry readings and lectures at many colleges and universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill, Wells, UNC-Greensboro, Carson-Newman, Louisiana State, Washington University, Wesleyan, Furman, UNC-Asheville, Emory and Henry, SUNY-Binghamton and Brockport, Duke, Hawaii, Stanford
University, Oxford University, as well as the Guggenheim Museum,
Manhattan Theatre Club, Poetry Society of America, and American
Academy in Rome.

Service at Cornell:
Acting Chair, 1985, 1986-87.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1980-81, 1984-85.
Curriculum Committee, 1975-78, Chair 1980-81, 84-85.
Editor for Epoch, 1971-75.
Creative Writing Committee, 1971-, Chair 1982.