Education
He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an Master of Fine Arts
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Gary Young
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In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz county. His work has appeared in, Antaeus, The American Review, The Kenyon Review, Montserrat Review, ZYZZYVA. In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press.
His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts. His archive is held at Brown University.
In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A hop Handbook and Anthology through Lynx House Press.
Gary Young"s is a sensibility unique in American poetry, at once grounded in daily experience in his home in California and yet focused on, tuned to a metaphysical cast, a direction in no small way influenced by deep reading of Asian poetries. A luminous and concrete vision is at the center of his poetry. His recent books employ the prose-poem format exclusively and are shorter constructs, which move the quotidian to a significant level of contemplation and epiphany.
His basis is the nature around him, and Young"s textures and focuses show the speaker of the poem as part of nature, working within it and accountable to all things for action, thought, and being.
Achievements
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2009 Shelley Memorial Award National Endowment for the Humanities the Vogelstein Foundation the California Arts Council two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Pushcart Prize James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, Number Other Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds first poet laureate, City of, California 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America.
Awards
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Pushcart Prize; William Carlos Williams Award; Shelley Memorial Award 2009 Shelley Memorial Award National Endowment for the Humanities the Vogelstein Foundation the California Arts Council two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Pushcart Prize James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, No Other Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds first poet laureate, City of , CA 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Pushcart Prize; William Carlos Williams Award; Shelley Memorial Award 2009 Shelley Memorial Award National Endowment for the Humanities the Vogelstein Foundation the California Arts Council two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Pushcart Prize James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, No Other Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds first poet laureate, City of , CA 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.