
Lucie Brock-Broido received her B.A. and her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her books of poetry include Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award; The Master Letters (1995); and A Hunger (1988). In 2008, she edited and published Letters to a Stranger, Poems by Thomas James with Graywolf Press. Her awards and honors include the Witter-Bynner prize for poetry from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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2008
Letters to a Stranger
Brock-Broido edited this collection of poems by Thomas James, reissued by Graywolf Press....▶
2005
The Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry
Brock-Broido won the prize for her third collection of poetry, Trouble in Mind....▶
2004
Trouble in Mind
''In the next millennium, I will be middle aged. I do not do well / In the marrow of things.'' So wrote Lucie Brock-Broido....▶