Angela Sorby Explained
Angela Sorby (born 1965[1]) is an American poet, professor, and literary scholar.
Biography
Angela Sorby was born in Seattle, Washington. In 2024 she teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature.[2] She is particularly interested in how poetry engages with children and childhood.
Selected works
- Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998);
- Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005)
- Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).[3]
- Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013[4]
- The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014[5]
Literary awards
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Boring Side of the Family . Marquette University . 7 February 2024.
- http://www.marquette.edu/english/sorby.shtml Marquette University Faculty Page, Sorby, retrieved 2024-05-14
- https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=sorby%20angela&cm_sp=det-_-plp-_-author ABE Books website, Sorby, Angela
- https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/over-river-and-through-wood Johns Hopkins University Press website, Over the River and Through the Wood
- http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5343.htm University of Wisconsin Press website, The Sleeve Waves
- https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/contributor/angela-sorby Wisconsin Academy website, Angela Sorby
- https://plumepoetry.com/author/sorby-angela/ Plume Poetry website, Sorby, Angela
- https://www.childlitassn.org/book-award Children's Literature Association, Book Award
- https://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue110/poems/sorby.html Verse Wisconsin website, Issue 110: Three Poems