The Poetry of Kay Ryan
Comments by J. Zimmerman


Books by Kay Ryan:
* The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010).
* The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed (2008).
* The Niagara River (2005).
* Say Uncle (2000).
* Elephant Rocks (1996).
* Flamingo Watching (1994).
* Strangely Marked Metal (1985).
* Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (1983).

Kay Ryan featured in The Best American Poetry:
* The Best American Poetry: 2006 (guest editor Billy Collins);
* and The Best American Poetry: 2005 (guest editor Paul Muldoon) with "Home to Roost";
* and The Best American Poetry: 1999 (guest editor Robert Bly) with "The Will to Divest";
* and The Best American Poetry: 1995 (guest editor Richard Howard) with "Outsider Art".

* Time Line.









Time Line

1945.
Born.

1983.
Published Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends.

1985.
Published Strangely Marked Metal.

1994.
Published Flamingo Watching.

1996.
Published Elephant Rocks.

2000.
Published Say Uncle.

2001.
Awarded a 2001 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

2004.
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (worth $100,000).
Awarded a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship.

2005.
Published The Niagara River.

2006.
Elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

2008.
Appointed U.S.A. poet laureate.
One of 48 women poets in 100 essential modern poems by women:
Published The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed.

2009.
Appointed for a second term as U.S.A. poet laureate.

2010.
Published The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.

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