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Born in Alexandria, Egypt of Armenian parentage, Gregory Djanikian came to the United States when he was 8 years old and spent his boyhood in Williamsport, PA. He is a graduate of the Syracuse University writing program and is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania where he was an undergraduate. He is the author of six collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, Years Later, So I Will Till the Ground, and, most recently, Dear Gravity. He has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, two prizes from Poetry magazine , the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center at Columbia University, and multiple residencies at Yaddo.
His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Boulevard, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Good Poems, American Places , Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem , Seriously Funny , Becoming Americas: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing , Poem in Your Pocket , Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond , 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day , among others.

He lives outside of Philadelphia, PA with his wife, artist Alysa Bennett.

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Gregory Djanikian

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Books from Gregory Djanikian

Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else

So I Will Till the Ground

Sojourners of the In-Between

About Distance

Xconnect

Years Later

So I Will Till the Ground

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