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'''Mark Strand''' (born 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet.
'''Mark Strand''' (born 1934) is a Canadian-born American poet.
He has been awarded the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award; along with fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.<ref>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/102</ref>
Strand also served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990-1991.<ref>http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1991-2000.html</ref>
Some of his best-known poems are
*"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"
*"Eating Poetry"
*"Keeping Things Whole"
*"My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer"
*"Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life"
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[[category:Poets]]
[[category:Poets]]