Marianne Boruch
Professor, Department of English
| Education: | M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, 1979 |
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| Office: | HEAV 204C |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-40765 |
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| Specializations: | Creative Writing; Poetry Writing; 20th-century poetry |
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Marianne Boruch (Professor, MFA University of Massachusetts 1979) is a poet who has taught at Purdue since 1987 and directed the M.F.A. Program since its beginning in 1987 until 2005. Her work includes five collections of poetry--
Poems New & Selected,
A Stick that Breaks and Breaks and
Moss Burning (Oberlin College Press, 2004, 1997, 1995);
Descendant and
View from the Gazebo (Wesleyan, 1989, 1985)--and two books of essays on poetry,
In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations and
Poetry's Old Air. Her poems and essays have been published in such places as
The New Yorker,
The Nation,
Iowa Review,
The Georgia Review and have been anthologized in
The Best American Poetry, 1997,
Boomer Girls,
Poets of the New Century,
Poets Reading: The field Symposia, and elsewhere. Her awards include two Pushcart Prizes, the Terrence DePres Award from Parnassus, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
