Gary Young (poet)

Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.[1]

Gary Young
Gary at Washington Square in 2009
Born1951 (age 70–71)
OccupationPoet, printer, book artist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California Santa Cruz
University of California, Irvine
GenrePoetry
Children2

Life

He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A.[2]

His work has appeared in Poetry, Antaeus, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Montserrat Review,[3] ZYZZYVA.[4].

In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts.

His archive is held at Brown University.[5]

He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz,[6] and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years,[7] with his wife and two sons.

In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology through Lynx House Press.

Awards

Works

Poetry
  • Hands: Poems. Illuminati. 1979. ISBN 978-0-89807-005-7.
  • The Dream of a Moral Life. Copper Beech Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-914278-56-6.
  • Days: Poems. Silverfish Review Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-878851-08-6.
  • Braver Deeds: Poems. Gibbs Smith. 1999. ISBN 978-0-87905-866-1.
  • No Other Life. Heyday Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-59714-004-1.
  • Pleasure. Heyday Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-59714-023-2.
  • New and Selected Poems, White Pine Press.
  • Adversary. Miramar Editions. 2017.
  • That's What I Thought: Poems. Persea Books. 2018. ISBN 978-0-89255-494-2.

Editor

References
  1. "Gary Young named county's first ever poet laureate - Santa Cruz Sentinel". www.santacruzsentinel.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-30.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.themontserratreview.com/issue-01-98/contributors.html
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2009-09-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Brown University Library / Hay".
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Gary Young".
  8. Alison Flood (12 March 2009). "'Genius and need' wins prose poet Gary Young Shelley Memorial award". Guardian.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2009-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-11. Retrieved 2009-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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