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Poet Campbell McGrath

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CAMPBELL MCGRATH grew up in Washington, D.C. where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University’s creative writing program in 1988. He currently lives in Miami Beach, Florida, and teaches creative writing at Florida International University.

McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for “Spring Comes to Chicago”, his third book of poems), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” In 2011 he was named a Fellow of United States Artists. In 2017 McGrath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

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A Video Chat with Pulitzer Prize-Recipient Jane Smiley

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    Introduction to Jane Smiley.  3:00 min.  Photo & Design:  Raymond Elman.  Video Montage:  Jade Cheek.  Music:  Hard...

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Campbell McGrath Reads Four Poems from “XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century”

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  XX:  Poems for the Twentieth Century by Campbell McGrath is an “astonishing sequence of one hundred poems – one for each year of...

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Morton Dean: A Noble Career in Broadcast Journalism

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MORTON DEAN is an award-winning American television and radio news anchor, broadcast news correspondent, documentary film director, and author. He is a former weekend news anchor for CBS Evening News, as well as ABC’s Good Morning America.

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Brian Rothschild and the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus

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    Introduction to Brian Rothschild & The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. Video: Jade Cheek. Photo & Design:  Raymond...

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