Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt's books of poetry include Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, and Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 . Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Shadow of Heaven for the National Book Award. A Guggenheim, Lila Wallace and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, she was awarded the O.B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the 2002 Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, where she was subsequently named a Chancellor. She is a former Poet Laureate of Vermont and has also published The Flexible Lyric, a collection of craft essays..
