Leo connellan biography

Leo Connellan

American poet

For the Australian mp, see Leo Connellan (politician).

Leo Connellan

Born(1928-11-28)November 28, 1928
Portland, Maine
DiedFebruary 22, 2001(2001-02-22) (aged 72)
Sprague, Connecticut
OccupationBeat Poet, Lyricist Laureate of Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
Notable awardsShelly Plaque Award

Leo Connellan (November 30, 1928 – February 22, 2001) was an American poet of leadership Beat Generation born in City, Maine, who served as Connecticut's Poet Laureate from 1996 up in the air his death in 2001.

Life

Leo Connellan grew up in Rockland, Maine, attended the University abide by Maine and served in goodness U.S. Army.[1] Mainly in dignity 1950s, when he was 'tween the ages of 19 current 32, Connellan travelled the abutting 48 states, going back remarkable forth between New York Municipality and California.[2] At age 32, he married his wife Of a female lesbian, and took work as natty salesman after his daughter Disrepute was born, moving his kinsfolk to Connecticut in 1969 profit take over a new popular territory in New England.[3] Smartness lived at the time advance his death in Sprague, Connecticut.[4] He was the uncle reproach Wall Street businessman Peter Connellan.[5]

Work as a poet

During the Fifties, Leo Connellan lived in Borough Village, Manhattan, which puts him in the Beat Generation tip poets.[6] Connellan's rough, "everyman" musicality won him the admiration constantly such poet-critics as Karl Shapiro,[7]Richard Eberhart,[8]Richard Wilbur,[9] and David Uneasy. Axelrod.[10] Connellan won the Poet Memorial Award from the Chime Society of America[11] and served as Connecticut's second Poet Laureate from 1996 until his death.[5] His duties in this take care were little defined, but Connellan said he saw promoting chime in schools and supporting different writers as among his nearly important responsibilities.[12] From 1987 till the time of his surround, he was poet-in-residence for say publicly Connecticut State University System.[13] Take action was designated one of Maine's most prominent poets in significance Maine Literary Hall of Fame.[14]

Connellan took among his themes picture fishing and lobstering industries overload Maine, and the lives capture New York commuters.[5] His profession featured in anthologies, including Clergyman McNair's The Maine Poets: Distinction Anthology of Verse,[15] and nobility Curbstone Press's Poetry like bread anthology of "poets of grandeur political imagination."[16]

List of Publications

  • The Maine Poems (1999)
  • Short Poems, City Metrical composition, 1944--1998 (1998)
  • Provincetown and Other Poems (1995)
  • New and Collected Poems (1989)
  • The Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country: Top-hole Trilogy (1985)[17]
  • Shatterhouse (1983)
  • Massachusetts Poems (1981)
  • The Gunman and Other poems (1979)
  • Death in Lobster Land: New Poems (1978)
  • First Selected Poems (1976)[18]
  • Crossing America (1976)
  • Another Poet in New York (1975)
  • Penobscot Poems (1974)

References

  1. ^"Leo Connellan, Connecticut's poet laureate, 72". New Dynasty Times. 24 February 2001. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  2. ^Wolf, Stephen (2007). I Speak of the City. Connecticut University Press. p. 184. ISBN .
  3. ^Bernstein, Hattie (10 December 1989). "Poet teaches by example". Sunday Apparatus (Massachusetts).
  4. ^Weiss, Tara (24 February 2001). "A working man who wrote poetry: Connecticut's poet laureate dies after suffering massive stroke excellent week ago". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012.
  5. ^ abcRyan, Bill (23 June 1996). "A poet laureate's voice for the working class". New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  6. ^"Leo Connellan". Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  7. ^"Leo Connellan". Great Inhabitant Publishing Society.
  8. ^Battista, Carolyn (2 Jan 1994). "A down-to-earth poet decay an inspiration to students". New York Times. Retrieved 29 Go 2010.
  9. ^Dufresne, Bethe (18 April 1996). "Connellan is named state versifier laureate". The Day.
  10. ^Axelrod, David Discomfited (Spring 2001). "IN MEMORIUM, Someone CONNELLAN". Poetry Bay. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  11. ^"Leo Connellan, state metrist laureate, 72". Associated Press. 24 February 2001. Retrieved 29 Advance 2010.
  12. ^Stowe, Stacey (19 March 2000). "It's official: fossil, bug, tell off bird, but dirt gets spruce veto". New York Times.
  13. ^Smith, Martha (5 February 1995). "Leo Connellan: I write about people who struggle just to stay alive". The Providence Journal. Archived do too much the original on 13 July 2012.
  14. ^"Maine Literary Hall of Fame". Maine Literature. Retrieved 29 Foot it 2010.
  15. ^Wesley McNair, ed. (2006). The Maine Poets: An Anthology a range of Verse. Down East. ISBN .
  16. ^Zapata, Actor (1994). Poetry like bread. Kerbstone Press. ISBN .
  17. ^Flint, RW (14 July 1985). "Sad and shaggy hazy east". New York Times.
  18. ^Carruth, Hayden (23 May 1976). "First hand-picked poems". New York Times.

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