Bradford Gray Telford
Encyclopedia
Bradford Gray Telford is an American poet
, and translator
.
He was educated at Princeton University
, Columbia University
, and University of Houston
, with a PhD.
He is a Houston Writing Fellow at the University of Houston
.
His work has appeared in Agni, BOMB, Bloom, Eclipse, Epicenter, Laurel Review, Lyric Review, McSweeney's, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Phantasmagoria, Diner, and American Literary Review, Yale Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.
He was Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and translator
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
.
He was educated at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
, with a PhD.
He is a Houston Writing Fellow at the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
.
His work has appeared in Agni, BOMB, Bloom, Eclipse, Epicenter, Laurel Review, Lyric Review, McSweeney's, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Phantasmagoria, Diner, and American Literary Review, Yale Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.
He was Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.
Awards
- 2005 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
- 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation PrizeWillis Barnstone Translation PrizeThe Willis Barnstone Translation Prize is an annual award given to an exceptional translation of a poem from any language into English. The prize was inaugurated in 2002 by the University of Evansville under the direction of William Baer and has been presented annually since 2003. The award is...
- Donald Justice Poetry Prize finalist
- Morton Marr Prize
Works
Melia azederach "; "The Conversation"Translations
Dirty Goat 18, 2008- The Story of My Voice Geneviève Huttin, Host, 2010
Essays
- "Milosz Is Watching You", Poetry Foundation, 7.26.06