Jorie Graham Biography
Jorie Graham is an American poet who was born in New York City, U.S. as Jorie Pepper. The Poetry Foundation called Graham “among the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.”
Graham replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric as well as Oratory at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1996 for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems from 1974 to 1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She won the year 2013 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Jorie Graham Age
Graham is 71 years old as of 2021, he was born on 9 May 1950, in New York City, NY, United States. She celebrates her birthday on May 9 every year and her birth sign is Taurus.
Jorie Graham Height
Graham stands at an average height. She appears to be quite tall in stature if her photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding her actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Jorie Graham Education
Graham studied philosophy at the Sorbonne but was expelled for participating in student protests. She finished her undergraduate work as a film major at New York University and became interested in poetry during that time.
After working as a secretary, Graham later went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has held a longtime faculty position at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has held an appointment at Harvard University since the year 1999.
Jorie Graham Family
Graham born in New York City in 1950 to Curtis Bill Pepper(father), a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Stoll Pepper(mother). She also has a brother John Randolph Pepper whom they were raised together in Rome, Italy.
Jorie Graham Mother Beverly Pepper’s death
Graham announced Beverly Pepper’s death on 5 February 2020. Her mother died at her Todi home at the age of 97.
Jorie Graham Husband
Graham is married to a poet and painter Peter M. Sacks. The couple married in 2000. Sacks is also a colleague at Harvard. Graham has one child named Emily Galvin a result of her second marriage to James Galvin.
Graham has been married thrice. She was first married to publishing heir William Graham, brother of Donald E. Graham who was a former publisher of The Washington Post. She later got married to James Galvin, a poet in 1983, and they divorced in 1999.
Jorie Graham Net Worth
Graham’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a poet. Through his various sources of income, Graham has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Jorie Graham Measurements and Facts
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Jorie Graham.
Jorie Graham Wiki
- Full Names:Jorie Pepper
- Popular As: Graham
- Gender: Female
- Occupation / Profession: Poet
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Jorie Graham Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 71 years old as of 2021
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Date of Birth: 9 May 1950
- Place of Birth: New York City, NY, United States.
- Birthday: May 9
Jorie Graham Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: To be updated
- Height / How Tall?: Average
- Weight: Moderate
- Eye Color: To be updated
- Hair Color: To be updated
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Dress Size: Not Available
- Breast Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Hip Size: Not Available
Jorie Graham Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Curtis Bill Pepper
- Mother: Beverly Stoll Pepper(died)
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): John Randolph Pepper
- Marital Status: Married
- Husband/Spouse: Peter M. Sacks (m. 2000), James Galvin (m. 1983–1999)
- Dating / Girlfriend or Dating / Boyfriend: Not Applicable
- Children: Sons (Not available) Daughter(s) (Emily Galvin)
Jorie Graham Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: Between $1 million and $5 million dollars
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: Poet
Jorie Graham House and Cars
- Place of living: US
- Cars: Car Brand to be Updated
Jorie Graham Runaway
Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, such as The End of Beauty, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, Sea Change, P L A C E, From the New World (Poems 1976-2014), Fast as well as the Runaway.
Jorie Graham Harvard
Graham has held a longtime faculty position at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has held an appointment at Harvard University since the year 1999. Graham replaced Nobel Laureate and poet Seamus Heaney as a Boylston professor in Harvard’s Department of English as well as American Literature and Language. She became the first woman to be awarded this position.
Jorie Graham Poetry
Graham judged the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series contest, which selected the manuscript “O Wheel” from Peter Sacks, her future husband, as the first-place winner in January 1999. She noted that at that time she was not married to Sacks and that while she had “felt awkward” about giving the award to her then-boyfriend, she had first cleared it with the series editor, Bin Ramke.
As a result of the critical media coverage, Ramke resigned from the editorship of the series. Graham subsequently reported that she would no longer serve as a judge in contests although she continued to do so after the year 2008.
Throughout the course of the contest, Ramke had insisted that judges of the contest be kept secret, and until Foetry.com obtained the names of judges via The Open Records Act, the conflict of interest had been undisclosed. A statement now adopted in the rules of many competitions Such as at the University of Georgia Contest to prevent judges from selecting students is often referred to as the “Jorie Graham rule”.
Also, the Foetry site contended that Graham, as a judge at Georgia as well as other contests, had awarded prizes to at least five of her former students from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, including Joshua Clover, Mark Levine, and Geoffrey Nutter.
Graham’s reply to this was that over years of teaching she has had more than 1400 students, many of whom went on to continue writing poetry, that no rules had prohibited her from awarding prizes to former students, and that in each case she claims to have selected the strongest work.
Jorie Graham Books
- The Dream of the Unified Field, 1995
- Runaway: New Poems, 2020
- Sea Change: Poems, 2008
- The end of beauty, 1987
- The errancy, 1997
- Overlord , 2005
- Swarm, 1999
- Hybrids of plants and of ghosts, 1980
- Never, 2002
- Erosion, 1983
- Region of unlikeness, 1991
- From the New World: Poems 1976-2014
- Jorie Graham, 2015 P L A C E, 2012
- Fast, 2019
- Earth Took of Earth Fast: Poems, 1982
- Place: New Poems, 2012
- The Best American Poetry 1990
- The Taken- down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008
- Jorie Graham, 2013
- Materialism, 1993
- To a friend going blind Jorie Graham Photographs & poems Jeannette Montgomery Barron, 1998
- Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry 2005
- Occupation Jorie Graham The Hiding Place, 1991
- Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry Thomas Gardner, 1999
- EARTH TOOK EARTH PB 1996 Conjunctions: 43, Beyond Arcadia Chinua Achebe, 2000
- Evidences James McCorkle, 2003
Jorie Graham Poetry
- Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts.
- Erosion
- The End of Beauty
- Region of Unlikeness
- Materialism
- The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
- The Errancy
- Photographs and Poems
- Swarm
- Never
- Overlord
- Sea Change
- P L A C E
- From The New World: Poems 1976-2014
- Fast
Jorie Graham Quotes
- “…love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.”
- “Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.”
- “Touch pain with great curiosity.”
- “May I break your even weave, loosen your knot,
and if i break you are you mine?” - “that we be founded on infinite smallness”
Frequently Asked Questions About Jorie Graham
Who is Jorie Graham?
Jorie Graham is an accomplished poet termed as “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation” by the Poetry Foundation. Graham won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
How old is Jorie Graham?
Graham is an American national born on 9 May 1950 in New York City, NY, United States.
How tall is Jorie Graham?
Graham stands at an average height, she has not shared her height with the public. His/her height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.
Is Jorie Graham married?
Yes, she is married to poet and painter Peter M. Sacks. They got married in 2000. Sacks is also a colleague at Harvard.
How much is Jorie Graham worth?
Graham has an approximate net worth of between $1 million and $5 million dollars. This amount has been accrued from her leading roles in the entertainment industry.
Where does Graham live?
Because of personal reasons, she has not shared her precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of her house.
Is Graham dead or alive?
Graham is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.
Where is Graham Now?
Graham is and has been producing poetry since 1974, having her last book released in 2020 (Runaway).
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