Mr. McClatchy Verified

J.D. McClatchy is a poet and the professor of English at Yale. He is also the editor of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings. McClatchy's honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been one of the New York Public Literary Lions, and received the 2000 Connecticut Governor's Arts Award. He was appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and was named to the Academy's Board of Directors in 2003. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received the 1991 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He is the author of five books of poetry: Hazmat (2002), Ten Commandments (1998), The Rest of the Way (1992), Stars Principal (1986), and Scenes from Another Life (1981). His selected poems, Division of Spoils, appeared in England in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1974.

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