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'''Maurice English''' (October 21, 1909 &ndash; November 18, 1983) was a poet, reporter, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the [[University of Chicago]], [[Temple University]], and the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>English's date of birth is taken from the [[Social Security Death Index]].</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Maurice English Dead at 74; Headed University Presses |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E4D91339F933A15752C1A965948260 |work=The New York Times |date=November 20, 1983 |accessdate=2008-07-20 }}</ref>


[[File:Maurice English.jpg|thumb|Maurice English 1982]]
Following English's death, his family established the '''Maurice English Poetry Award''', which honors an author in his or her sixth (fifty or beyond) decade of life for a distinguished
book of poems published during the preceding calendar year. The award acknowledges that Maurice English's first volume of poetry, ''Midnight in the Century'', was published in his 55th year. The award carries an honorarium of $3,000 and a request for a public reading in Philadelphia.<ref name="PhilArt">{{cite web |url=http://www.philartalliance.org/MEPA.pdf |title=Maurice English Poetry Award |year=2005 |format=.pdf |publisher=Philadelphia Art Alliance |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5ZS9m0wFY |archivedate=2008-07-20}}</ref> The award was first given in 1985 to [[Jane Cooper]] for ''Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems'' (1985).<ref name=NYT90>{{cite news |author=NY Times Staff |title=Libraries Continue Season of Poetry |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DA163DF932A15752C0A966958260 |work=The New York Times |date=January 21, 1990 |accessdate=2008-07-23 }}</ref>
'''Maurice English''' (October 21, 1909 &ndash; November 18, 1983) was a poet, journalist, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the [[University of Chicago]], [[Temple University]], and the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>English's date of birth is taken from the [[Social Security Death Index]].</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Maurice English Dead at 74; Headed University Presses |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E4D91339F933A15752C1A965948260 |work=The New York Times |date=November 20, 1983 |access-date=2008-07-20 }}</ref>

Following his death, English’s family established the Maurice English Poetry Award, which honors an author in his or her sixth decade of life (fifty or beyond) for a distinguished book of poems published during the preceding calendar year. The award acknowledges that English's first volume of poetry, ''Midnight in the Century'', was published in his 55th year. It carries an honorarium of $3,000 and a request for a public reading in Philadelphia.<ref name="PhilArt">{{cite web|url=http://www.philartalliance.org/MEPA.pdf |title=Maurice English Poetry Award |year=2005 |format=.pdf |publisher=Philadelphia Art Alliance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722172347/http://www.philartalliance.org/MEPA.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The MEPAward was first given in 1985 to [[Jane Cooper]] for ''Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems'' (1985).<ref name=NYT90>{{cite news |author=NY Times Staff |title=Libraries Continue Season of Poetry |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DA163DF932A15752C0A966958260 |work=The New York Times |date=January 21, 1990 |access-date=2008-07-23 }}</ref>


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
*{{cite book |last=Sullivan |first=Louis H. |authorlink=Louis Sullivan |author2=English, Maurice |title=The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan |year=1963 |publisher=Northwestern University Press|location=Evanston, Illinois}}
*{{cite book |last=Sullivan |first=Louis H. |author-link=Louis Sullivan |author2=English, Maurice |title=The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan |url=https://archive.org/details/testamentofstone00sull |url-access=registration |year=1963 |publisher=Northwestern University Press|location=Evanston, Illinois}}
*{{cite book |last=English |first=Maurice |title=Midnight in the Century |year=1964 |publisher=Prairie School Press|location=Park Forest, Illinois}}
*{{cite book |last=English |first=Maurice |title=Midnight in the Century |year=1964 |publisher=Prairie School Press|location=Park Forest, Illinois}}
*{{cite book |last=English |first=Maurice |title=In Our Time |year=1971 |publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}
*{{cite book |last=English |first=Maurice |title=In Our Time |year=1971 |publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}


==Recipients of the Maurice English Poetry Award==
==Recipients of the Maurice English Poetry Award==
The year indicated is the year in which the award was made.
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*2005: [[Caroline Knox]], ''He Paves the Road with Iron Bars''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20837 |title=Brenda Shaughnessy Receives the James Laughlin Award |publisher=Academy of American Poets |date=September 5, 2007 |accessdate=2010-00-01}}</ref>
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*2004: [[R. T. Smith]], ''The Hollow Log Lounge''<ref name="PhilArt" />
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*2003: [[Samuel John Hazo|Samuel Hazo]], ''Just Once: New and Selected Poems''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.autumnhouse.org/catalog/backlisted-titles/just-once-new-and-previous-poems-by-samuel-hazo/ |title=Just Once: New and Previous Poems by Samuel Hazo |publisher=Autumn House Press |accessdate=2010-10-11}}</ref>
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*2002: [[Robert Bly]], ''The Night Abraham Called to the Stars''<ref>{{cite news |last=Hirsch |first=Edward |authorlink=Edward Hirsch |title=Poet's Choice: Edward Hirsch on ''The Night Abraham Called To The Stars'' |url=http://www.robertbly.com/rev_abraham5.html |work=The Washington Post |date=November 20, 2002 |accessdate=2008-07-23 }}</ref>
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*2001: [[Kay Ryan]], ''Say Uncle''<ref name="locpr">{{cite web | last=Raymond | first=Matt |author2=Urschel, Donna | title=Librarian of Congress Appoints Kay Ryan Poet Laureate | url=http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-127.html | publisher=The Library of Congress | date=17 July 2008 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5ZOuDTVzW |archivedate=2008-07-18}}</ref>
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*1991: [[Richard Fein]], ''Kafka's Ear''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashevillereview.com/v10n1/contributors.php |title=Contributors to Vol. 10, No. 1 |accessdate=2008-07-21 |year=2003 |work=The Ashville Review |publisher=}}</ref>
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*1990: [[W. S. Merwin]], ''Selected Poems''<ref>{{cite book |author=Routledge Staff |title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location= |isbn=1-85743-179-0|pages=383 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC |accessdate=2008-07-20}}</ref>
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*1989: [[Jean Valentine]], ''Home Deep Blue: New and selected poems''.
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*1988: [[David Ray (poet)|David Ray]], ''Sam's Book''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honors and Awards |url=http://www.davidraypoet.com/Honors%20&%20Awards.htm |work=davidraypoet.com |last=Ray |first=David |date=2008 |accessdate=2011-04-04}}</ref>
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*1987: [[Philip Booth (poet)|Philip Booth]], ''Relations''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Maine Poets: An Anthology |last=McNair |first=Wesley |page=235 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=btFK-_w0DD8C&pg=PA235 |publisher=Down East Enterprise Inc |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-89272-708-7 }}</ref>
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*1986: [[Linda Pastan]], ''A Fraction of Darkness''<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary American ethnic poets: lives, works, sources |first=Linda E. |last=Cullum |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-32484-0 |page=231 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FYK0Cqd-m-kC&pg=PA231 }}</ref>
*1985: [[Jane Cooper]], ''Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems''<ref name=NYT90 />
*1985: [[Jane Cooper]], ''Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems''<ref name=NYT90 />
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*1986: [[Linda Pastan]], ''A Fraction of Darkness''<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary American ethnic poets: lives, works, sources |first=Linda E. |last=Cullum |year=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-32484-0 |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYK0Cqd-m-kC&pg=PA231 }}</ref>
⚫
*1987: [[Philip Booth (poet)|Philip Booth]], ''Relations''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Maine Poets: An Anthology |last=McNair |first=Wesley |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btFK-_w0DD8C&pg=PA235 |publisher=Down East Enterprise Inc |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-89272-708-7 }}</ref>
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*1988: [[David Ray (poet)|David Ray]], ''Sam's Book''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honors and Awards |url=http://www.davidraypoet.com/Honors%20&%20Awards.htm |work=davidraypoet.com |last=Ray |first=David |date=2008 |access-date=2011-04-04}}</ref>
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*1989: [[Jean Valentine]], ''Home Deep Blue: New and selected poems''.
⚫
*1990: [[W. S. Merwin]], ''Selected Poems''<ref>{{cite book |author=Routledge Staff |title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-85743-179-0|pages=383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC |access-date=2008-07-20}}</ref>
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*1991: [[Richard Fein]], ''Kafka's Ear''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashevillereview.com/v10n1/contributors.php |title=Contributors to Vol. 10, No. 1 |access-date=2008-07-21 |year=2003 |work=The Ashville Review }}</ref>
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*2001: [[Kay Ryan]], ''Say Uncle''<ref name="locpr">{{cite web|last=Raymond |first=Matt |author2=Urschel, Donna |title=Librarian of Congress Appoints Kay Ryan Poet Laureate |url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-127.html |publisher=The Library of Congress |date=17 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719170038/http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-127.html |archive-date=19 July 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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*2002: [[Robert Bly]], ''The Night Abraham Called to the Stars''<ref>{{cite news |last=Hirsch |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Hirsch |title=Poet's Choice: Edward Hirsch on ''The Night Abraham Called To The Stars'' |url=http://www.robertbly.com/rev_abraham5.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 20, 2002 |access-date=2008-07-23 }}</ref>
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*2003: [[Samuel John Hazo|Samuel Hazo]], ''Just Once: New and Selected Poems''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.autumnhouse.org/catalog/backlisted-titles/just-once-new-and-previous-poems-by-samuel-hazo/ |title=Just Once: New and Previous Poems by Samuel Hazo |publisher=Autumn House Press |access-date=2010-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725024524/http://www.autumnhouse.org/catalog/backlisted-titles/just-once-new-and-previous-poems-by-samuel-hazo/ |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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*2004: [[R. T. Smith]], ''The Hollow Log Lounge''<ref name="PhilArt" />
⚫
*2005: [[Caroline Knox]], ''He Paves the Road with Iron Bars''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20837 |title=Brenda Shaughnessy Receives the James Laughlin Award |publisher=Academy of American Poets |date=September 5, 2007 |access-date=2010-09-10}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:57, 19 February 2024

Maurice English 1982

Maurice English (October 21, 1909 – November 18, 1983) was a poet, journalist, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the University of Chicago, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania.[1][2]

Following his death, English’s family established the Maurice English Poetry Award, which honors an author in his or her sixth decade of life (fifty or beyond) for a distinguished book of poems published during the preceding calendar year. The award acknowledges that English's first volume of poetry, Midnight in the Century, was published in his 55th year. It carries an honorarium of $3,000 and a request for a public reading in Philadelphia.[3] The MEPAward was first given in 1985 to Jane Cooper for Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems (1985).[4]

Selected publications

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  • Sullivan, Louis H.; English, Maurice (1963). The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
  • English, Maurice (1964). Midnight in the Century. Park Forest, Illinois: Prairie School Press.
  • English, Maurice (1971). In Our Time. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.

Recipients of the Maurice English Poetry Award

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References

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  1. ^ English's date of birth is taken from the Social Security Death Index.
  2. ^ "Maurice English Dead at 74; Headed University Presses". The New York Times. November 20, 1983. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
  3. ^ a b "Maurice English Poetry Award" (PDF). Philadelphia Art Alliance. 2005. Archived from the original (.pdf) on 2011-07-22.
  4. ^ a b NY Times Staff (January 21, 1990). "Libraries Continue Season of Poetry". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
  5. ^ Cullum, Linda E. (2004). Contemporary American ethnic poets: lives, works, sources. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-313-32484-0.
  6. ^ McNair, Wesley (2006). The Maine Poets: An Anthology. Down East Enterprise Inc. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-89272-708-7.
  7. ^ Ray, David (2008). "Honors and Awards". davidraypoet.com. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
  8. ^ Routledge Staff (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Routledge. p. 383. ISBN 1-85743-179-0. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
  9. ^ "Contributors to Vol. 10, No. 1". The Ashville Review. 2003. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
  10. ^ Raymond, Matt; Urschel, Donna (17 July 2008). "Librarian of Congress Appoints Kay Ryan Poet Laureate". The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008.
  11. ^ Hirsch, Edward (November 20, 2002). "Poet's Choice: Edward Hirsch on The Night Abraham Called To The Stars". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
  12. ^ "Just Once: New and Previous Poems by Samuel Hazo". Autumn House Press. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  13. ^ "Brenda Shaughnessy Receives the James Laughlin Award". Academy of American Poets. September 5, 2007. Retrieved 2010-09-10.


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