Longenbach receives Fairchild Award

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oet and critic James Longenbach, the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English, has been named the recipient of the Lillian Fairchild Award. The annual award, which is administered by the Department of English, is presented to a Rochester-area resident who has produced the best visual, literary, or musical work in the previous year.

Longenbach, who has taught at the University since 1985, was honored for his most recent volume of poems, Fleet River (2003), which describes the journey, both physical and emotional, of two travelers discovering the wonder of the world and, at the same time, love's possibilities.

Longenbach's poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Republic, The Nation, The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry. He is the author of several distinguished scholarly books on Modernist poets and poetry, including Modernist Poetics of History; Stone Cottage: Pounds, Yeats, and Modernism; Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things; and Modern Poetry After Modernism. His articles and reviews have appeared in Southwest Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and The Yale Review.

The Fairchild Award was established by Herman L. Fairchild of the Department of Geology in memory of his daughter, an accomplished designer who died of tuberculosis at age 32. The first award was given in 1924. Previous winners have included dance choreographer Garth Fagan, architect Frank Grosso, and novelist Andrea Barrett.

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