Discipline: Literature – poetry

Robin Behn

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Tuscaloosa, AL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1999
Robin Behn is an American poet and educator from Illinois. A graduate of Oberlin College, the University of Missouri, and the University of Iowa, her work has been featured in several publications, including the Cortland Review, Perihelion, Poetry, and Kenyon Review. Behn has published numerous works, such as Paper Bird (1988), The Red Hour (1993), Horizon Note (2001), Naked Writing (2008), and The Yellow House (2010), and edited the book The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercised from Poets Who Teach. Behn has received several accolades for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Behn currently teaches at the University of Alabama and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Studios

Garland

Robin Behn worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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