Kenneth Irby

Kenneth Lee Irby (November 18, 1936 – July 30, 2015) was an American poet.{{cite web|url=http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/irby/irby-bib.html|title=Kenneth Irby: A Bibliography|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/printer_060927_KenIrby.shtml|title=UGA Today|publisher=}} He won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/|title=Shelley Winners|publisher=}}

He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn.

He was born in Bowie, Texas, and In 1940 he moved to Fort Scott, Kansas with his family.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-06|title=Kenneth Irby|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-irby|access-date=2021-01-06|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}} He graduated from the University of Kansas, from Harvard University with an A.M., and from the University of California, Berkeley with a M.L.S. degree. From 1971-1975 he taught in the English department at Tufts University.[https://jacket2.org/article/kenneth-lee-irby-chronology] He was a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen on a Fulbright grant.{{cite web|url=http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/kenneth-irby.html|title=The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog|author=greenintegerblog|date=June 20, 2022 |publisher=}}

Irby's last role was as a professor of English at the University of Kansas.{{Cite web |url=http://www.english.ku.edu/people/faculty_graduate_program.shtml#irby |title=KU Department of English / People / Graduate Program Faculty |access-date=March 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719225813/http://www.english.ku.edu/people/faculty_graduate_program.shtml#irby |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.news.ku.edu/2010/march/31/irby.shtml|title=KU professor Kenneth Irby wins prestigious poetry award - KU News|publisher=}}

A colloquium held at the University of Kansas on November 5, 2011 honored Irby's work, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Contributions were made by fellow poets Joseph Harrington, Denise Low, Benjamin Friedlander, Pierre Joris, and Lyn Hejinian.

He died on 30 July 2015{{cite web|url=http://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?pid=175439868|title=Kenneth Irby Obituary - Lawrence, KS - Lawrence Journal-World|work=Lawrence Journal-World}} at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.{{Cite web|date=2015-10-10|title=Kenneth Irby|url=https://rumsey-yost.com/2015/10/kenneth-irby/|access-date=2021-01-06|website=Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory Inc.|language=en-US}}

Works

{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=58J6YcsJuloC&dq=Kenneth+Irby&pg=PA123| chapter=[Record]| title=The Best American Poetry 2004|editor1=Lyn Hejinian |editor2=David Lehman |publisher= Simon and Schuster| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-7432-5757-2 }}
{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNIU35zXk30C&q=Kenneth+Irby| title=The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006|editor1= Kyle Waugh |editor2=Cyrus Console |editor2-link=Cyrus Console | publisher= North Atlantic Books| year= 2009| isbn= 978-1-55643-833-2 }}
Studies, First Intensiy Press, 2001, {{ISBN|978-1-889960-05-0}}
Ridge to Ridge, Other Wind Press, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-9626046-6-9}}
Antiphonal and Fall to Fall, Kavyayantra Press, 1994
Call Steps, Station Hill/Tansy, 1992;[http://www.stationhill.org/irby.html Station Hill Authors - Kenneth Irby] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814114337/http://www.stationhill.org/irby.html |date=August 14, 2007 }} Midpoint Trade Books Inc, 1997, {{ISBN|978-1-886449-58-9}}
Orexis, Station Hill, 1981, {{ISBN|978-0-930794-17-0}}
Catalpa, Tansy Press, 1977
Archipelago, Tuumba Press, 1976
To Max Douglas, Tansy Peg Leg Press, 1974
Relation: poems, 1965-1966, Black Sparrow, 1970.
The flower of having passed through paradise in a dream: poems, 1967, Kelly, 1968

References

External links

[http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Irby.php "Kenneth Irby"], Penn Sound
[http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9607&L=poetics&D=1&O=D&P=22171 University of Buffalo review of Irby's poems]
[http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/bookarts/1999/04/msg00133.html Arcturus Editions: by Kenneth Irby]
[https://www.pw.org/content/kenneth_irby_1 Kenneth Irby] at [https://www.pw.org Poets & Writers]

Category:1936 births

Category:2015 deaths

Category:University of California, Berkeley School of Information alumni

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:University of Kansas faculty

Category:Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen

Category:University of Kansas alumni