Background

Leo Connellan was born on November 30, 1928, in Portland, Maine, United States.

Education

Leo attended the University of Maine.

Career

Leo traveled in the United States between the ages of 19 and 36, taking work as a salesman. He was a special lecturer and poet-in-residence at Annhurst College during the early 1970s. He then went on to Southern Connecticut State College, where he spent 1977 and 1978 as lecturer and poet-in-residence. From 1987 until the time of his death, he was poet-in-residence for the Connecticut State University System.

His work featured in anthologies, including Wesley McNair's The Maine Poets: An Anthology of Verse, and the Curbstone Press's Poetry like bread anthology of "poets of the political imagination."

Achievements

• Connellan was named Connecticut’s poet laureate in 1996. He penned a number of poetry volumes, including Penobscot Poems, Death in Lobster Land, Seven Short Poems, and Gunman and Other Poems. Thrice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Connellan received the Lucille Medwick Poetry Prize and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Works

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  • Provincetown and Other Poems

    (In Provincetown and Other Poems, Leo Connellan masterfull...)

    1995
  • New and Collected Poems

    (Gathers forty-five years of verse from American poet Conn...)

    1989
  • First selected poems 1976
  • Shatterhouse 1983
  • Another poet in New York 1975
  • The Clear Blue Lobster Water Country 1985