[New-Poetry] Paul Engle from the Writer's Almanac

[Anny Ballardini]

It's the birthday of the poet *Paul
Engle<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,c2vl,dv,ixjr,4g65,3hrs,fxvj#Biographical%20Note>
*, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1908. He joined the faculty of the
University of Iowa and in 1941 took over as director of the Iowa Writers'
Workshop, the first program in the country to offer an M.F.A. in Creative
Writing. He was the director for 24 years, and he shaped the program, raised
millions of dollars, and made it into a model for similar M.F.A. programs.
He convinced lots of famous writers to move to Iowa City and serve as
faculty members, writers like Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Kurt
Vonnegut. And he also convinced many bright young students to come,
including Flannery O'Connor, Philip Levine, Donald Justice, and Robert Bly.
He died in 1991 in an airport, on the way to accept an award for his work.


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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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