Alfred Corn

Fiction Writer, Poet

Hopkinton, RI

Rhode Island US

Email:

alfredcorn1@gmail.com

Website:

www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11…

Author's Bio

Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poems, a novel, two collections of criticism, and a play. For many years he taught in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Contradictions (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)

Stake (Counterpoint Press, 1999)

Part of his Story (Mid-List Press, 1997)

Present (Counterpoint Press, 1997)

Autobiographies (Viking/Penguin, 1992)

The West Door (Viking/Penguin, 1988)

Notes from a Child of Paradise (Viking, 1984)

A Call in the Midst of a Crowd (Viking, 1978)

Prizes won:

Guggenheim Fellowship
National Foundation for the Arts grant
Grant from the Academy of Arts and Letters
Academy of American Poets Fellowship
Levinson Prize from =Poetry= magazine.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

French, Spanish

Born in:

Bainbridge

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Last update: Oct 18, 2011