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Robert Cording, professor of English, has received
a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment
for the Arts in the amount of $20,000. The fellowship, awarded
to only 45 writers nationwide, is intended to encourage the
production of new works of poetry by affording recipients
the time and means to write.
Cording has published four collections of poetry, including
Life-List, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal
award, in 1987; What Binds Us To This
World (Copper Beech
Press, 1991); Heavy Grace (Alice James, 1996); and Against
Consolation (CavanKerry Press, 2002). He also has contributed
more than 300 poems to magazines such as The Nation,
Image , Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review,
Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review and the New
Yorker.
Cording’s work has appeared in several anthologies,
including The Best Spiritual Writing
of 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004; the Pushcart
Anthology, 2002; and Godine's Poets
of the New Century. He has received a number of awards and
grants, including a previous fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Connecticut
Commission on the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
In 1992, he was poet in residence at the Frost Place in Franconia,
N.H.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1977, Cording was
honored with the College's Distinguished Teaching Award in
1995. In 2002, he was named the James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly
Barrett Endowed Chair in Creative Writing. Cording lives
in Woodstock, Conn., with his wife, Colleen ’78, and
their three sons.
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