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Portrait of Dr. John M Blair

Dr. John M Blair

  • University Distinguished Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Awards

2024

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2024, Red Wheelbarrow Magazine. October 2, 2024

2023

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry, Philadelphia Stories Magazine. March 26, 2023

2022

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize in Poetry, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation. May 2, 2022

2021

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry, Reed Magazine. December 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Rash Award in Poetry, Broad River Review. July 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Robert Frost Award in Poetry, The Frost Foundation. March 2021

2020

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Briar Cliff Review Poetry Prize, 2020, Briar Cliff Review. December 1, 2020

2019

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Prize Americana for Prose, Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing. December 14, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize, Kallisto Gaia Press. November 25, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Connecticut River Review Poetry Award, The Connecticut Poetry Society. October 19, 2019

2018

  • Award / Honor Recipient: University Distinguished Professor, Texas State University. September 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Golden Apple Award for Scholarship/Creative Activity, College of Liberal Arts. September 2018

2017

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Cultural Center of Cape Cod's National Prize for Poetry, Cultural Center of Cape Cod. September 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, Bellingham Review. January 1, 2017 - June 7, 2017

2016

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Wilda Hearne Prize for Fiction, Southeast Missouri State University Press. October 1, 2016 - March 1, 2017

2015

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Iowa Prize for Poetry, University of Iowa Press. June 1, 2015 - April 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dana Award in Poetry. 2015

2014

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Florida Review Editors Prize in Poetry. January 1, 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Tusculum Review Prize in Fiction. January 1, 2014

2012

  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry. January 1, 2012

2010

  • Award / Honor Recipient: The St. Petersburg Review Prize in Poetry. January 1, 2010

2008

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry. January 1, 2008

2007

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Phoebe Winter Fiction Award. January 1, 2007

2006

  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Andrew Lytle Prize for Fiction. January 1, 2006

2004

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas Institute of Letters Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry. January 1, 2004

2003

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Nominated for the National Book Critic Circle Award. January 1, 2003
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Seminar. January 1, 2003
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Award for Poetry. January 1, 2003

2002

  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Fiction. January 1, 2002