John Engels was an American poet

Poet

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Life

He graduated from University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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 in 1952. After Navy service, he studied at the University College, Dublin, then graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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, with an M.F.A. in 1957. He taught at St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College

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, and Saint Michael's College

Saint Michael's College

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, Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College

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, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Middlebury College

Middlebury College

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, and Emory University

Emory University

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, and the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

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. In 1995, he was Wyndham Robertson Chair at Hollins College.

His work appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and many other prestigious journals.

Awards

• 1976 Frost Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference
• 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
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• 1986 National Poetry Series
  National Poetry Series
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  , for Cardinals in the Ice Age
• 1988 Poet in residence at The Frost Place
  The Frost Place
  The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home in Franconia, New Hampshire, USA....
  
  

Works

• "Adam After the Ice Storm", Poetry Foundation
• "Love Poem--Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named", Ploughshares, Spring 1977

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