Other collections include 'The Garden' and 'The Wild Iris'. Her collection 'Ararat', (1990) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbett National Prize for Poetry. Gluck has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannas Literary Award for Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowments for the Arts. It received the National Book Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

In 1985, 'The Triumph of Achilles' was released to thunderous applause, gaining awards in every category. Full of angry emotion and disturbing tone, her poetry deals with the horrible and painful. Known for her well-crafted use of verse and meter, she first garnered attention with 'Firstborn', a collection of poetry from 1968.

Louise Gluck is considered one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Her last appointment was as Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College. In 1993, she was an editor of The Best American Poetry anthology. Seven years later she published 'The House on the Marshland', and in 1985, 'The Triumph of Achilles' won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1968, her first collection entitled 'Firstborn' was published. After graduation, Gluck began teaching poetry, accepting positions at various colleges and universities. She is best known for her award winning collection entitled 'The Wild Iris'. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, both in New York State. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.Louise Elizabeth Gluck, 1943 - Louise Gluck was born Apin New York City, New York. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. 'Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.'-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.

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