The Moving Out

John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard, where he won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he earned his M.F.A. with distinction and was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska, to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. This is his eighth poetry collection and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals, as well as in more than two dozen anthologies. He has won the Discovery Award of the New York Poetry Center, the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Prize, and first prize in the Carolina Quarterly Poetry Contest, among other awards. In addition he earned a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a Rasmuson Fellowship, and was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. These days, he and his wife Nancy divide their time between Fairbanks and Bellingham, Washington. For more information, you can visit his website at www.johnmorganpoet.com