Jack Ridl
{{Short description|American poet (born 1944)}}
Jack Ridl (born April 10, 1944) is an American poet, and was a professor of English at Hope College.{{cite web| url=http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/fac_bio/ridl.html| title=Jack Ridl| website=www.hope.edu| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106091548/http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/fac_bio/ridl.html| archive-date=January 6, 2013| url-status=dead}}
Life and career
Ridl's father, Charles "Buzz" Ridl, coached basketball at Westminster College, Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. Ridl graduated from Westminster College, Pennsylvania with a BA in 1967 and M.Ed., in 1970. He lives in Laketown Township, Michigan, with his wife, Julie.{{cite web| url=http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/michcoll/ridl.htm| title=Jack Ridl| publisher=Michigan State University Libraries}}{{cite news| url=http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/08/profile_of_poet_and_teacher_ja.html| title=Profile of poet and teacher Jack Ridl| work= The Grand Rapids Press| date=August 9, 2009| author=Mark Copier}}{{cite news| url=http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x772307088/Prime-Time-Poet-CNN-ESPN-calling-as-Ridl-debuts-Losing-Season| title=Prime Time Poet: CBS, ESPN calling as Ridl debuts 'Losing Season'| author=Jon Schultz| work=The Holland Sentinel| date=Aug 18, 2009| access-date=November 16, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822032718/http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x772307088/Prime-Time-Poet-CNN-ESPN-calling-as-Ridl-debuts-Losing-Season| archive-date=August 22, 2009| url-status=dead}}
His work has appeared in LIT, The Georgia Review, FIELD, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Chelsea, Free Lunch, The Journal, Passages North, Dunes Review,Dunes Review. Volume 16 Issue 1. Winter, 2012. and Poetry East. Hope College has named its Visiting Writers Series for him.{{cite web| url=https://hope.edu/arts/jack-ridl-visiting-writers-series/about.html| title=Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series: About| website=hope.edu}}
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The sun rises over the trees behind our
house and the dogs want out. Today
it's supposed to snow again. Tonight
we'll have soup, just the two of us
and talk about our month in Italy,
how we wondered if we could live
in all that light. We'll remember
the last time we danced alone.
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Awards
- 2013 ForeWord Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for Practicing to Walk Like a Heron—Winner of the Gold Medal in the category of Poetry (Adult Nonfiction)
- 2007 Society of Midland Authors Award for Broken Symmetry in the category of Poetry
- 2002 Say-the-Word Poetry Award from The Ellipse Art Center in Arlington, Virginia, for "The Dry Wallers Listen to Sinatra While They Work", chosen by David St. John
- 2001 Chapbook Award from The Center for Book Arts in New York City, for Against Elegies, selected by Sharon Dolin and Billy Collins
- 1996, The Carnegie Foundation named him Michigan Professor of the Year.
Works
- {{cite book| title=The same ghost: poems| publisher=Dawn Valley Press| year= 1984| isbn= 978-0-936014-13-5 }}
- After School, Samisdat Press. 1988.
- {{cite book|title=Between|publisher=Dawn Valley Press|year=1988|isbn=978-0-936014-18-0}}
- Against Elegies, The Center for Book Arts, (2001)
- {{cite book| url=http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/broken-symmetry| title=Broken Symmetry | publisher=Wayne State University Press| year= 2006| isbn= 978-0-8143-3322-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Losing Season |publisher=CavanKerry Press| year=2009| isbn= 978-1-933880-15-0 }}
- [http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/practicing-walk-heron Practicing to Walk Like a Heron]. Wayne State University Press. 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-8143-3539-0}}.
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book| title=Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses| author=Peter J. Schakel| author2=Jack Ridl| publisher=St. Martin's Press| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-312-13281-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=Approaching Literature in the 21st Century: Fiction, Poetry, Drama| author=Peter Schakel| author2=Jack Ridl| publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-312-40756-8 }}
=Editor=
- {{cite book| title=250 Poems: A Portable Anthology | editor=Peter Schakel | editor2=Jack Ridl| publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's| year=2002| isbn= 978-0-312-46616-9 }} (2nd edition 2008)
- {{cite book | title=Literature: A Portable Anthology | editor=Janet E. Gardner | editor2=Beverly Lawn | editor3=Jack Ridl | editor4=Peter Schakel | publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's | isbn=978-0-312-46186-7 | year=2004 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/literatureportab00jane }} (2nd edition 2008)
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my2pMVaeD20C&dq=Jack+Ridl&pg=PA262| chapter=A Father| title=Contemporary Michigan poetry: poems from the third coast| editor=Michael Delp| editor2=Conrad Hilberry| editor3=Herbert Scott| others=Photographer Michael Delp| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year= 1988| isbn= 978-0-8143-1924-6 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHHlYP_u6aUC&dq=Jack+Ridl&pg=PA260| chapter=I Am Wearing Your Shirt| title=New poems from the third coast: contemporary Michigan poetry| editor=Michael Delp| editor-link=Michael Delp| editor2=Conrad Hilberry| editor2-link=Conrad Hilberry| editor3=Josie Kearns| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year= 2000| isbn=978-0-8143-2797-5 }}
References
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External links
- [http://ridl.wordpress.com/ "Author's blog"]
- [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php?auth_id=2173 "Jack Ridl", The Writer's Almanac]
- [http://throughthe3rdeye.com/node/222 "An Interview with Jack Ridl", Through the 3rd Eye]
- "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXA_qbItcmc Perfectly Imperfect": Jack Ridl at TEDxMacatawa]
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