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Albert Frank Moritz - The Canadian Encyclopedia

F. Moritz

Canadian poet

Albert Frank Moritz (born 15 April 1947) is a United States-born Canadianpoet, teacher, and scholar.[1]

Life and career

Born in Niles, Ohio,[2] Moritz was educated at Marquette University, receiving a Ph.D. for his dissertation on Tennyson.[3]

Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has worked variously as an advertising copywriter and executive, editor, publisher, and university professor.

His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He currently teaches at Victoria College in the University of Toronto.[4]

He was the winner of the ReLit Award for poetry in 2005 for Night Street Repairs, the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009 for The Sentinel,[5] and the Raymond Souster Award in 2013 for The New Measures.[6] He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Aw ABOUT - A.

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