Bradford Gray Telford

{{short description|American poet, and translator (born 1968)}}

Bradford Gray Telford (born 1968 El Paso, Texas) is an American poet and translator.

He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and University of Houston, with a PhD.{{cite web|url=http://www.class.uh.edu/CWP/__docs/2008Newsletter.pdf |title=The Newsletter of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston 2007–2008|accessdate=2010-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928010414/http://www.class.uh.edu/CWP/__docs/2008Newsletter.pdf |archivedate=2011-09-28 }}

He is a Houston Writing Fellow at the University of Houston.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/calendar/index.php?view=e&id=472&d=14&m=04&y=2010|title = Calendar - University of Houston}}

His work has appeared in Agni, BOMB,{{Cite web |url=http://bombsite.com/issues/103/articles/3107 |title=Bomb 103/Spring 2008 Two Poems by Bradford Gray Telford |access-date=2010-05-02 |archive-date=2009-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124184401/http://www.bombsite.com/issues/103/articles/3107 |url-status=dead }} Bloom,{{cite web |url=http://www.artsinbloom.com/issues_Print.html |title=BLOOM • Issues |accessdate=2010-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128144735/http://www.artsinbloom.com/issues_Print.html |archivedate=2009-11-28 }} Eclipse, Epicenter,{{Cite web|url=http://www.epicentermagazine.org/contributors.htm|title = Epicenter, A Literary Magazine}} Laurel Review,{{cite web|url=http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/backissues.html |title=The Laurel Review -- Back Issues |accessdate=2010-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720020439/http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/backissues.html |archivedate=2011-07-20 }} Lyric Review, McSweeney's, Pleiades, Ploughshares,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=7432|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}} Phantasmagoria, Diner, and American Literary Review, Yale Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82440|title = Bradford Gray Telford|date = 12 June 2021}}

He was Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.

Awards

  • 2005 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
  • 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize{{cite web |url=http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/2007.htm |title=University of Evansville : Title |accessdate=2010-05-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616034135/http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/2007.htm |archivedate=2010-06-16 }}
  • Donald Justice Poetry Prize finalist
  • Morton Marr Prize

Works

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720082347/http://waywiser-press.com/bradfordgraytelford.html "The Gemstone Globe"; "Das Fugue der Kunst"]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011200835/http://waywiser-press.com/bradfordgraytelford2006.html "Melia azederach "; "The Conversation"]
  • Perfect Hurt, Waywiser, 2009

=Translations=

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716232446/http://www.thedirtygoat.com/images/excerpts/ext018i.html "Today is Always Today"], Dirty Goat 18, 2008
  • The Story of My Voice Geneviève Huttin, Host, 2010

=Essays=

  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=178487 "Milosz Is Watching You"], Poetry Foundation, 7.26.06

References

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