Discipline: Literature – poetry

Joan Murray

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Old Chatham, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2011

Joan Murray worked on her fifth collection of poems. A National Poetry Series Open Competition winner, she was awarded a second NEA Poetry Fellowship for 2011.

Studios

Phi Beta

Joan Murray worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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