Richard Cecil (poet)

For other people named Richard Cecil, see Richard Cecil (disambiguation).

Richard Cecil (born March 14, 1944) is an American poet.

Early life and education

Richard Cecil was born on March 14, 1944, in Baltimore, Maryland.[1]

He graduated with a BA from the University of Maryland, an MA from the University of Iowa, and MFA from Indiana University.[1]

Career

Academia

Cecil was visiting professor at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1987, and from 1987 to 1989 was first visiting assistant professor and then visiting professor at Indiana University. He was then appointed assistant professor at Rhodes College from 1988 to 1989.[1]

As of 2008 he was teaching at Indiana University Bloomington as a teacher of creative writing in the English Department, and in the university's Hutton Honors College, as well as in the Spalding University brief-residency MFA Program in Louisville, Kentucky.[2]

Writing

Cecil's first collection of poetry, Einstein's Brain was published in 1986. This was followed by Alcatraz (1992), which was the recipient of the 1991 Verna Emery Poetry Award, and In Search of the Great Dead in 1999. In 2004, Twenty First Century Blues was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2004.[3]

His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry,[4] Ploughshares, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Missouri Review,[5] Southern Review,[6] River Styx, Virginia Quarterly Review.[1][2]

Awards

Personal life

Cecil married poet and author Maura Stanton in 1971.[1]

Works

  • "Caliban and Ariel". American Poetry Review. November 1995.
  • Einstein's Brain. University of Utah Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-87480-255-9.
  • Alcatraz. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55753-015-8.
  • In Search of the Great Dead. Crab Orchard Review. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8093-2260-2.
  • Twenty first century blues. SIU Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8093-2597-9.

Ploughshares

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Cecil, Richard". International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Richard Cecil". Faculty. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Richard Cecil". Indiana University Department of English. Archived from the original on 10 June 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
  4. ^ "December 1998 | Poetry Magazine". October 2021.
  5. ^ "Richard Cecil: Walking Home in the Rain". Archived from the original on 23 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Southern Poetry Review: Previous Issues". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
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