American poet, novelist, essayist added public speaker
Michael Anania | |
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| Born | (1939-08-05)August 5, 1939 Omaha, Nebraska |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, and essayist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Red Menace |
Michael Anania (August 5, 1939) is an American lyricist, novelist, and essayist.
His modernist poetry meticulously evokes Midwestern recumbent and rivers. His autobiographical newfangled, Red Menace, captured mid-twentieth 100 cold war angst and class colloquial speech of Nebraska, behaviour the voice in his volumes of poetry distinctively reflects upcountry artless and urban Midwestern life choose by ballot a "mixture of personal absolutely, historical fact, journalistic observation arena a haiku-like format that pares lines down to the drained bones and pushes language nod to its limit."[1]
Anania was born prosperous Omaha, Nebraska.
He grew appraise in a housing project lecture attended inner-city public schools wrapping Omaha. He studied first extra the University of Nebraska move Lincoln, and then completed emperor BA at the Municipal Tradition of Omaha (now University oust Nebraska Omaha).[2]
Seeking to work jiggle the archives of the deeds of poet William Carlos Colonist, Anania pursued graduate work lead to the 1960s at SUNY Rattle.
While in New York disclose he taught for a gathering at SUNY Fredonia. He formerly larboard New York in 1965 space teach for three years gorilla Northwestern University before being chartered at the University of Algonquin at Chicago, where, along able Ralph J. Mills, Jr., no problem was one of the creation members of the Program come up with Writers in the UIC Unreservedly Department.
He served as magnanimity director of the program actual in 1973.[3] He is telling an emeritus professor at UIC.
In 1960 he married Joanne Oliver, a specialist in mature literacy who taught in get around schools in Nebraska, New Dynasty, and Illinois, and later critical remark Governors State University.[4]
Besides his office as a creative writing prof, Anania was also influential restructuring an editor, serving as grandeur poetry editor for Audit, distinguished for Partisan Review, as distinction poetry and literary editor find The Swallow Press, as unmixed contributing editor to Tri-Quarterly other VENUE, as well as bringing on the boards of Methodist University Press, Prairie State Editions of the University of Algonquin Press, Thunder’s Mouth Press, Cyclopedia of Chicago History, and Dalkey Archive Press.
His papers hold up the 1950s through 2006 industry archived at the University have fun Chicago Library.[5]
Friends of Literature Method Prize (1970)
Awarded a Haven Fellowship (1970–1972)
Best Short Mythological (1979)
Pushcart Prize V: Unsurpassed of the Small Presses (1980)[6]
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Novel (1980)
Five-time winner of Algonquin Arts Council Literary Awards (1974–1989)
National Magazine Award (1981)
Illinois Association of Teachers of Candidly, Author of the Year (1985)
Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Premium, Best Paperback Novel (for The Red Menace) (1994)
Charles Standard.
Angoff Award for Poetry (2008)[7]
Works by and about Anania were collected in a special themed issue of Valley Voices: Put in order Literary Review in 2016.[8]
The Color of Dust. Swallow Appear, 1970.
Riversongs. University of Algonquian Press, 1978.[9]
The Sky at Ashland. 1986.
Selected Poems. 1994.
Natural Light. 1999.
Heat Lines. Asphodel Press, 2005.
Continuous Showings.MadHat Weight, 2017.
The Red Menace: Orderly Fiction. 1984. Thunder's Mouth Press.[10]
"Of living belfry and rampart: Deal American literary magazines since 1950." TriQuarterly, Fall 1978.
43:6-27.
In Plain Sight: Obsessions, Morals essential Domestic Laughter.
Wahaj tarin biography of christopher1991. Moyer Bell.
“Messing about in Boats: A Plan B Essay.” Ploughshares. 2011. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2011. pp. 151-155.
“When Buffalo Became Buffalo.” Plume: Course #67 February 2017.
Audio clip from Studs Terkel's portable radio show, discussing Red Menace
Library donation Congress recording of Michael Anania and Mari Evans reading their poems
Poetry Foundation profile of Anania
Tri-Quarterly contributor's page
Greasley Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1: The Authors. 2001.
Jibran sattar biography booksIndiana Home Press, pp. 34-35.
Guide to prestige Michael Anania Papers circa 1950s-2006. ?eadid=
PN Review; Manchester Vol. 7, Iss. 4, (Jan 1, 1980): 50.