Douglas W. Lawder

Born: 06/12/1934   NY
Died: 11/05/2009
Parents: Douglas W. Lawder, Janice C. Lawder
Children: Leland, Douglas

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Rough Places Plain : Poems of the Mountains
- Included in Anthology
Poetry Adult St. Simons Island, GA : Salt Marsh Press 2005
Binoculars
- Winner of Stevens Manuscript Competition for 2000
Poetry Adult Rochester Hills, MI : National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press 2000
Trolling Poetry Adult Boston, MA : Little, Brown 1977
Three Northwest Poets
- With Albert Drake and Lawson Fusao Inado
Poetry Adult Madison, WI : Quixote Press 1971
More, New Verse II
- Editor with Stephen Tudor
Poetry Adult Eugene, OR : The Hundred Pound Press 1966
More, New Verse
- Editor with Stephen Tudor
Poetry Adult Eugene, OR : Hundred Pound Press 1965
- Contributor to Nation, Seventies, Poetry, Northwest Review, New York Quarterly, and Virginia Quarterly Review Non Fiction Adult
What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To provoke a sense of existence through the artifice of prose and poetry."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Michigan State University summer writing grants
- Grants received for following years: 1972, 1973, 1979
1972 -1979
National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1968
Danford Foundation Grant 1968
Michigan Council for the Arts Grant

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 45-48 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 1
1974 -1981

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) with honors University of Oregon Eugene , OR 1964 -1967
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Kenyon College Gambier , OH 1953 -1957

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Michigan State University East Lansing 1970
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Earlham College Richmond 1967 -1970
Managing Editor of Northwest Review and Associate Editor of Northest Folklore University of Oregon Eugene , OR 1964 -1967
Teacher of Spanish Wayland Academy Beaver Dam 1961 -1963
Teacher of Spanish, English, and Horseback Riding Steamboat Springs 1958 -1961
Copywriter trainee J. Walter Thompson New York 1957 -1958

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