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Robert Wrigley is an American poet and professor of English at the University of Idaho. He was born on February 27, 1951 in East St. Louis, Illinois. He earned a BA from Southern Illinois University in 1973 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1975. Wrigley has published nine collections of poetry, including Earthly Meditations (1986), Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems (1996), and Reign of Snakes (2006). He has also published two collections of essays, including What My Father Believed (2005). Wrigley has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award. He has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. As of 2021, Robert Wrigley's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Born 27 February, 1951
Birthday 27 February
Birthplace East St. Louis, Illinois, United States
Nationality United States

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2016

Wrigley retired from teaching (in 2016) at the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Idaho, where his wife, Kim Barnes, a memoirist and writer, also teaches.

2003

His poems have been published in a number of journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic, Barrow Street, and The New Yorker. In 2003 and 2006 he had poems published in Best American Poetry, and in 2013, his poem "Religion" appeared in The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition, selected by Robert Pinsky. Wrigley is also the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes. Reign of Snakes won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Lives of the Animals won the 2005 Poets' Prize. In the Bank of Beautiful Sins won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award.

1971

In 1971 Wrigley was inducted into the army, filing for discharge as a conscientious objector. He received his M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Montana in 1976, where he studied under poets Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and John Haines. From 1987 to 1988 he served as writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho State Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

1951

Robert Wrigley (born 1951 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is an American poet and educator.