Ralph Angel

Ralph Angel is the author of five books of poetry: YOUR MOON (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2014); Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award); Twice Removed ; Neither World (James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets); and Anxious Latitudes ; as well as a translation of the Federico Garcia Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song . His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary...See more

Ralph Angel is the author of five books of poetry: YOUR MOON (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2014); Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award); Twice Removed ; Neither World (James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets); and Anxious Latitudes ; as well as a translation of the Federico Garcia Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song . His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles. See less