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Kelly, Brigit Pegeen
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Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California in 1951. She was a poet whose books included To the Place of Trumpets; Song, which won the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets; and The Orchard. She received several awards including a Discovery/the Nation Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and a Whiting Writers Award as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. During her lifetime, she taught at the University of California-Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She died in October 2016.
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