Life

He graduated from St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in De Pere, Wisconsin. Founded in October 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings, a Norbertine priest and educator, the school was named after Saint Norbert of Xanten. In 1952, the college became coeducational and today enrolls about 2,175...

, near Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wisconsin

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He served as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War

Korean War

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He studied at University of Illinois, an received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Florence

University of Florence

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In the early 1960s he married Anne.

From September 1962, to December 1998, he taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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He lives in Boulder, Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

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Awards

• 1975 Walt Whitman Award
• 1981 National Poetry Series open competition
• 1983 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• 1998 Wallace Stegner award
• 1999 Boulder, Colorado
  Boulder, Colorado
  Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
  
  city's first poet laureate

Non-fiction

(Kodansha paperback, 1994)

• Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin’s Echo & the Anasazi (University Press of Utah, 1998)
• The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World Center for American Places 2005

Anthologies

• Short Takes (Norton, 2005)
• Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terr (Persea, 2004)
• Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University of Utah Press, 2000)
• Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999)

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