Draft:Daniel Corrie (poet)

Daniel Corrie is an American poet, scholar, and educator. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, Corrie

Corrie's poems have appeared in The American Scholar , Birmingham Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Hudson Review , Image, Kenyon Review, Measure, Modern Age , Missouri Review , The Nation, National Forum , New Criterion, Shenandoah, Southern Review , Southwest Review, Terrain.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, with poems selected for five anthologies and for Verse Daily. His scholarship exploring poetry and poetics has been featured in Modern Age

Corrie’s poetry is concerned with the imperiled natural world, the climate crisis , selfhood , and aspects of time

Life
Corrie's father was a United States Air Force officer, retiring as a full colonel. After his parents’ divorce and his father’s retirement when Corrie was a teenager, his father and he moved from Cleveland, Mississippi to his father’s hometown, Crewe, Virginia. Corrie received his BS and MA in English from Longwood College, now known as Longwood University.

He and his wife live on their farm in Tift County, Georgia.

Environmental Activism
Corrie and his wife, Ellen, have planted 60 acres of Longleaf pine and native understory near their home

Awards

 * 2011 - Morton Marr Poetry Prize

Chapbooks

 * Human, Iris Press ISBN 978-1604545074
 * For the Future, Iris Press ISBN 978-1604545005
 * Words, World, Blue Horse Press ISBN 978-0692699263