Albert F. Moritz

ALBERT F. MORITZ was born on April 15, 1947, in Niles, Ohio, USA, and educated at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from which he received a Ph.D. in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British poetry. His most recent boos of poems areThe Garden: a poem and an essay(2021),As Far As You Know(2020), andThe Sparrow: Selected Poems(2018). He has published 20 books of poems and his poetry has received various recognitions including the Guggenheim Fellowship; inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets; the Ingram Merrill Fellowship; the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Bess Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine; the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award of the Southwest Review; the ReLit Award; the Griffin Poetry Prize; the Raymond Souster Award of the League of Canadian Poets, and selection to the Collecon Legtima Defensa of the Universidad Autnoma de Zacatecas (Mexico; distinguished foreign authors in translation). He is a three-time finalist for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry for his booksRest on the Flight into Egypt(1999),The Sentinel(2008), andThe New Measures(2012); his bookAs Far As You Know(2020) was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award. In January 2019 he was selected Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto and served in that role until May 2023.