Biography of Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. Webb was born in Philadelphia in 1938, and grew up in Houston. He earned his B.A. in English from Rice University, and an M.A. in English from the University of Washington, and an M.F.A. in Professional Writing and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California. He teaches at California State University, Long Beach, where he received a Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and he lives in Long Beach, California.Honors and awards
2001 Guggenheim Fellowship
1999 Felix Pollack Prize, for Liver
1998 Whiting Award
1998 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Reading the Water
1997 Morse Poetry Prize, for Reading the Water
Academy of American Poets Prize
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
Brain Camp. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-82296-338-7.
What Things Are Made Of. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-82296-229-8.
Shadow Ball. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-82296-042-3.
Amplified Dog. Red Hen Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-59709-022-3.
Hot Popsicles. University of Wisconsin Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-299-20994-0.
Tulip farms and leper colonies: poems. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2001. ISBN 978-1-929918-15-7.
Liver. University of Wisconsin Press. September 14, 1999. ISBN 978-0-299-16574-1.
Reading the Water. Northeastern University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55553-325-0.
A Webb for All Seasons. Applezaba Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-930090-58-6.
Poetry That Heals (Red Wind Books, 1991)
Everyday Outrages (Red Wind Books, 1989)
Zinjanthropus Disease (Querencia Press, 1978)Anthologies Edited
Stand-Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology (University of Iowa Press, 2002)
Stand-Up Poetry: The Anthology (California State University Press, 1994)
Stand-Up Poetry: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond (Red Wind Books, 1990)
References
External links
Interview: Poem of the Week > Oct. 12, 2007 > An Interview with Charles Harper Webb by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
Audio: "Silent Letters". Cortland Review. November 1998.
Poem: "What We Believe". Jacket 10. October 1999.
Poem: Poetry Foundation > The Animals are Leaving by Charles Harper Webb
Poem: "Funktionslust". Virginia Quarterly Review: 512–513. Summer 1999.
Essay: "The Pleasure Of Their Company: Voice And Poetry". Cortland Review. Spring 2006.
