Craig Morgan Teicher
{{short description|American poet}}
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Craig Morgan Teicher (born 1979) is an American author, poet and literary critic. His poetry collection, The Trembling Answers, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently lives in New Jersey.
Biography
Teicher was born in New York in 1979. He studied at Columbia University where he received an MFA in 2005.{{cite web |title=Craig Morgan Teicher |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/craig-morgan-teicher |website=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=13 January 2020}}
His poetry collection, The Trembling Answers, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He is the author of two other poetry collections, Brenda is in the Other Room and Other Poems, published in 2008, winner of the Colorado Poetry Prize and To Keep Love Blurry, published in 2012.{{cite web |title=Craig Morgan Teicher |url=https://poets.org/poet/craig-morgan-teicher |website=Poets.org |accessdate=13 January 2020}} In 2010, Teicher published the prose collection, Cradle Book: Stories and Fables, and in 2014, the chapbook, Ambivalence and Other Conundrums. His debut collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.{{cite web |last1=Toll |first1=Martha Anne |title='We Begin In Gladness' Brings A Message Of Poetry's Importance In Today's World |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/660943795/we-begin-in-gladness-brings-a-message-of-poetrys-importance-in-todays-world |website=NPR |accessdate=14 January 2020}}
Teicher is the director of digital operations at The Paris Review{{cite web |title=Welcoming our New Digital Director, Craig Morgan Teicher |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/30/welcoming-our-new-digital-director-craig-morgan-teicher/ |website=Paris Review |accessdate=13 January 2020}} and is a poetry editor of The Literary Review. Teicher lives in Verona, New Jersey, with his wife, the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and their children.Lehman, David; and Hirsch, Edward. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QI_tDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 Best American Poetry 2016], p. 190. Simon and Schuster, 2016. {{ISBN|9781501127557}}. Accessed January 19, 2020. "Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970, and is currently associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.... She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children in Verona, New Jersey."
Awards
Bibliography
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== Collections and chapbooks ==
- Brenda Is in the Other Room and Other Poems, (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008)
- To Keep Love Blurry (BOA Editions, 2012)
- Ambivalence and Other Conundrums, (Omnidawn, 2014), chapbook
- The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions, 2017)
== List of poems ==
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| 2021
|"Peers" |{{cite journal |author=Teicher, Craig Morgan |date=April 5, 2021 |title=Peers |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=7 |pages=35 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/peers }} | |
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- Cradle Book (BOA Editions, 2010)
- We Begin in Gladness, (Graywolf Press, 2018)
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