Craig Blais
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| name = Craig Blais
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}}
| birth_place = Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
| education = Holyoke Community College (AA)
University of San Francisco (BA)
Wichita State University (MFA)
Florida State University (PhD)
| workplaces = Anna Maria College
| discipline = English
| sub_discipline = Creative writing
Poetry
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Craig Blais (born 1978) is an American poet and academic. He is an associate professor of English at Anna Maria College.
Early life and education
Blais was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He earned an Associate of Arts in liberal arts from Holyoke Community College, a Bachelor of Art in English from the University of San Francisco, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Wichita State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University.{{Cite web |title=FSU Graduate News |url=http://www.english.fsu.edu/news/gs_news.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424161255/http://www.english.fsu.edu/news/gs_news.html |archive-date=2014-04-24 |access-date=2014-04-30}}[http://f5paper.com/article/about-crows-poetry-book-about-art-museums-strip-clubs F5 Magazine] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140224204343/http://f5paper.com/article/about-crows-poetry-book-about-art-museums-strip-clubs|date=2014-02-24}}
Career
Blais's first book About Crows won the 2013 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry judged by Terrance Hayes and published by the University of Wisconsin Press.{{Cite web |title=UW Press: Wisconsin Poetry Series |url=https://uwpress.wisc.edu/series/wi-poetry.html |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=uwpress.wisc.edu}} About Crows was awarded Gold Medal in the category of poetry in the 2014 Florida Book Awards competition.{{Cite web |title=The Florida Book Awards is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 competition. {{!}} The Florida Book Awards |url=https://www.floridabookawards.org/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=www.floridabookawards.org}} His second book Moon News was selected by former Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins as finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, to be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Michael McGriff Named 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner |url=https://news.uark.edu/articles/54115 |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=University of Arkansas News |language=en}}
His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Antioch Review, Barrow Street,{{Cite web |title=Craig Blais's schedule for The Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017 |url=https://themassachusettspoetryfesti2017.sched.com/craig_blais.1tgrjcqi |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=themassachusettspoetryfesti2017.sched.com}} Hayden's Ferry Review, Los Angeles Review,{{Cite web |date=2020-02-10 |title=A Short History of Artists in My Family by Craig Blais |url=https://losangelesreview.org/short-history-artists-family-craig-blais/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=The Los Angeles Review}} New Welsh Review,{{Cite web |url=http://www.newwelshreview.com/article.php?id=641 |title=New Welsh Review |access-date=2014-02-16 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214947/http://www.newwelshreview.com/article.php?id=641 |url-status=dead }} The Southern Review, and other places. He is associate professor of English at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts.{{Cite web |title=Profile |url=https://annamaria.edu/profile/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=Anna Maria College |language=en-US}}
Works
- About Crows (2013)
- Moon News (2021)
References
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External links
- [http://poems.com/feature.php?date=15880 Craig Blais on Poetry Daily, June 23, 2013]
- [https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5150.htm University of Wisconsin Press Author Page]
- [http://www.neworleansreview.org/fishbone-novena/ "Fishbone Novena", October 2013, New Orleans Review]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075803/http://www.huesoloco.org/?p=1004 Poem: "Sonnet (as an excuse to publish a story from when I was ten)"]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143633/http://anti-poetry.com/anti/blaiscr/ Poem: "Oh Lovely Rock (A Sonnet with a Phone Number in It)"]
- [http://www.craigblais.com Craig Blais's personal website]
- [https://www.uapress.com/product/moon-news/ University of Arkansas Press Author Page]
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Category:Poets from Springfield, Massachusetts
Category:University of San Francisco alumni
Category:Anna Maria College faculty
Category:Wichita State University alumni
Category:Florida State University alumni
Category:Writers from Springfield, Massachusetts