Discipline: Literature

Maurice English

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972, 1974, 1977
Maurice English (1909–1983) was a poet, reporter, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the University of Chicago, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Following English's death, his family established the Maurice English Poetry Award, which honors an author in his or her sixth (age 50 or beyond) decade of life for a distinguished book of poems published during the preceding calendar year. The award acknowledges that Maurice English's first volume of poetry, Midnight in the Century, was published in his 55th year. The award carries an honorarium of $3,000 and a request for a public reading in Philadelphia. The award was first given in 1985 to Jane Cooper for Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems (1985).

Studios

New Jersey

Maurice English worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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