Geoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator. Born in Atlanta, Brock received an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Brock’s poetry has been featured in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2007. His first collection of poetry, Weighing Light (2005), won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and his second Voices Bright Flags (2014) won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Brock has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Antiquarian Society, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Florida Arts Council. Brock was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2002 to 2004. Brock has also made significant contributions as a translator. He initially began translating under the guise of close reading. In 1998 he was awarded the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in support of his translation of Cesare Pavese’s poetry. His translation of Pavese’s Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950 (2002) earned him the MLA’s Lois Roth Translation Award and the PEN Center USA award for translation. Disaffections was named one of the best books of 2003 by the Los Angeles Times. Brock has also translated Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Roberto Calasso’s K, and Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. In recognition of these translations, he has received Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in support of his anthology The FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry (2012). Brock teaches in the creative writing and translation programs at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Geoffrey Brock
Studios
Wood
Geoffrey Brock worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…