{{Short description|American poet, professor}} {{infobox writer | name = Beth Gylys | image = | birth_name = Beth Ann Gylys | birth_date = 1964 | birth_place = Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. | alma_mater = Allegheny College, BA<br />Syracuse University, MA<br />University of Cincinnati, PhD | spouse = Thomas Forsthoefel | occupation = Poet, Professor of English and Creative Writing | nationality = American }}
'''Beth Ann Gylys'''<ref>{{cite news|title=Marriages: Licenses Issued July 5 to 9|newspaper=Erie Times-News|date=July 19, 2010}}</ref> (born 1964 Passaic, New Jersey) is a poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University. She has published eight poetry collections, three of which have won awards.
==Early life and education== Gylys grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Allegheny College with a bachelor's degree in 1986.<ref>[http://sites.allegheny.edu/alumni/alumni-profiles/beth-gylys-86/ Beth Gylys '86] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319195410/http://sites.allegheny.edu/alumni/alumni-profiles/beth-gylys-86/ |date=2012-03-19 }} - Allegheny College profile</ref> She went on to receive a master's degree from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from University of Cincinnati. She has also attended the Stonecoast Writers Conference in Portland, Maine.<ref>{{cite journal|title=High Five|journal=JMWW|date=Summer 2006|url=http://jmww.150m.com/Gylys.html|accessdate=February 5, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305135116/http://jmww.150m.com/Gylys.html|archivedate=March 5, 2012}}</ref>
==Career== Gylys formerly taught at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.<ref name="merciad">{{cite web|url=http://merciad.mercyhurst.edu/content/singers-perform-poetry-matchbook|title=Singers perform poetry in 'Matchbook'|work=Merciad}}</ref> She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University.<ref name=gsu>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.gsu.edu/people.php?req=gylys|title=Department of English - Beth Gylys|publisher=Georgia State University|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114194930/http://english.gsu.edu/people.php?req=gylys|archivedate=2009-11-14}}</ref> Her poems have appeared in ''The Paris Review'',<ref>[http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/136 Issue 136] - ''The Paris Review''</ref> ''The Southern Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Antioch Review'',<ref>[http://antiochcollege.org/antioch_review/back_issues/summer_2001/ Summer 2001 Issue] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125002149/http://antiochcollege.org/antioch_review/back_issues/summer_2001/ |date=November 25, 2010 }} ''The Antioch Review''</ref> and ''The Columbia Review''.<ref name=gsu />
She received a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beth Gylys |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/beth-gylys |website=MacDowell.org |access-date=June 27, 2024}}</ref> In 2023 Georgia State University received a Mellon Foundation grant to start a literary journal called ''Beyond Bars''. Gylys is the principal investigator for the project which connects incarcerated individuals can contribute writings and artwork for the journal. The journal's board includes four graduate students and three incarcerated students.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nunez |first1=Gabriella |last2=Perez |first2=Dalia |title=GSU receives grant for 'Beyond Bars,' literary journal for and by incarcerated people |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/community/voices-for-equality/gsu-beyond-bars-literary-journal-for-and-by-incarcerated-people/85-77a9df9c-9b39-4b1c-9eeb-661cb06fb5d0 |access-date=June 5, 2024 |work=11Alive.com |agency=WXIA-TV |date=April 7, 2023}}</ref>
===Events=== Gylys' poem "Erratic Gardener" was featured on an episode of Garrison Keillor's ''A Prairie Home Companion'' in 1999.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schneider|first=Michael|title='Bodies That Hum' by Beth Gylys|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/19990815review314.asp|accessdate=February 5, 2013|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 15, 1999|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055509/http://old.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/19990815review314.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her book of personal ads, titled ''Matchbook'', has been set to music by composer Dan Welcher.<ref name="merciad" /> She was a featured guest poet at the January 2013 meeting of the Georgia Poetry Society.<ref>{{cite web|title=Beth Gylys - Morning Speaker|url=http://georgiapoetrysociety.org.s151994.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Winter-2012-GPS-Newsletter.pdf|work=Winter 2013 Newsletter|publisher=Georgia Poetry Society|accessdate=February 5, 2013|archive-date=April 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419212007/http://georgiapoetrysociety.org.s151994.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Winter-2012-GPS-Newsletter.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== She is married to Thomas Forsthoefel who is Professor of Religious Studies at Mercyhurst College and the Erie County, PA, Poet Laureate.<ref name="merciad" />
==Awards== * '''Quentin R. Howard Award''' for ''Balloon Heart''<ref>[http://www.windpublications.org/authors/gylys.htm Beth Gylys] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305135140/http://www.windpublications.org/authors/gylys.htm |date=March 5, 2012 }} - Author profile on Wind Publications website.</ref> * '''Gerald Cable Book Award''' for ''Bodies that Hum''<ref>[http://www.silverfishreviewpress.com/?page=winners Gerald Cable Book Award Winners.]</ref> * '''The Ohio State University Press/''The Journal'' Award in Poetry''' for ''Spot in the Dark'' <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?%2Fbooks%2Fseries%20pages%2Fpoetry.html |title=The Ohio State University Press/''The Journal'' Award in Poetry. |access-date=2018-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325130937/https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?%2Fbooks%2Fseries%2520pages%2Fpoetry.html |archive-date=2016-03-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Works==
===Collections of poems=== * ''Balloon Heart'', Wind Publications, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-9636545-8-8}} * ''Bodies that Hum'', Silverfish Review Press, 1999, {{ISBN|978-1-878851-12-3}} * ''Spot in the Dark'', Ohio State University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-8142-0981-3}} * ''Matchbook'', La Vita Poetica Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-9786159-3-X}} * ''Sky Blue Enough to Drink'', Grayson Books, 2016, {{ISBN|978-0996280921}} * ''Body Braille'', Iris Press, 2020, {{ISBN|978-1-60454-260-8}} * ''The Conversation Turns to Wide-Mouth Jars'', with Cathy Carlisi and Jennifer Wheelock, Kelsay Books, 2022, {{ISBN|978-1639801541}} * ''After My Father: A Book of Odes'', Dancing Girl Press, 2024
===Anthology appearances=== * ''Anthology of Best Magazine Verse'' (1996) * ''American Poetry: the Next Generation'', Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels Eds, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-88748-337-0}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&dq=Beth+Gylys&pg=PA145 "Beyond the Map Edge"], ''Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951–1977'', Editor William J. Walsh, Mercer University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-88146-047-6}} * "Preference", ''The best American erotic poems: from 1800 to the present'', Editor David Lehman, Scribner Poetry, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-4165-3745-8}} * "Not an Affair, a Sestina" and "The Scene" were included in ''The Incredible Sestina Anthology'', Editor Daniel Nester, Write Bloody Publishing, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1938912368}} * ''Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology'', Madville Publishing, 2023 {{ISBN|978-1-956440-51-5}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100430051431/http://southeastreview.org/2010/02/beth-gylys.html "Beth Gylys Interviewed by Josephine Yu"], ''The Southeast Review'', February 1, 2010 * {{cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/BR21.3/Sampler.html|title=Poet's Sampler: Beth Gylys|work=Boston Review|access-date=2009-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613144550/http://bostonreview.net/BR21.3/Sampler.html|archive-date=2011-06-13|url-status=dead}} *[https://dbrookshire.blogspot.com/2009/07/beth-gylys-on-joe-milford-poetry-show.html Beth Gylys on The Joe Milford Poetry Show], July 20, 2009 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091114205649/http://www.ellensteinbaum.com/blog/2009/10/where-poem-comes-from-beth-gylys.html Where the poem comes from: Beth Gylys ]
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