Rate My Professor Kathleen Graber

Graber's acclaimed poetry collections are The River Twice: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2019), which won the 2020 UNT Rilke Prize; The Eternal City: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2010), a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and William Carlos Williams Prize, and recipient of the 2011 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry; and Correspondence (Saturnalia Books, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and others, with selections in Best American Poetry 2012 and 2013, and Pushcart Anthology 2011. She has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2012), American Academy of Arts and Letters Arts and Letters Award (2017), National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Grant (2011), VCU Eminent Scholar (2019), Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship (2008-2009), and Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University (2007-2008). Before VCU, she taught at New York University, Princeton University, Bennington College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Graber's innovative poetry, blending epistolary and essayistic forms, meditates on impermanence, change, and human connection, contributing significantly to contemporary American poetry.