Charles Harper Webb

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'''Charles Harper Webb''' is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is ''Shadow Ball'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calstate.edu/Newsline/Archive/00-01/010507-LB.shtml |title=California State University > ''Newsline'' Archives > May 7, 2001 > ''CSULB English Professor Charles Harper Webb Receives Prestigious 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship'' |publisher=Calstate.edu |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221224946/http://www.calstate.edu/Newsline/Archive/00-01/010507-LB.shtml |archivedate=February 21, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=20 |title=''The Best American Poetry 2006'' Table of Contents |publisher=Bestamericanpoetry.com |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420125634/http://bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=20 |archive-date=April 20, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''American Poetry Review, Paris Review,'' and ''Ploughshares.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aprweb.org/issue/novemberdecember-2003 |title=''The American Poetry Review'' > November/December 2003 > Vol. 32, No. 6 Online Edition |publisher=Aprweb.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223205659/http://www.aprweb.org/issue/novemberdecember-2003 |archivedate=February 23, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=1616 |title=''Ploughshares'' > Authors > Charles Harper Webb |publisher=Pshares.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/168 |title=''Paris Review'' > No. 168, Winter 2003 |publisher=Parisreview.com |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823055345/http://parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/168 |archivedate=August 23, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Webb was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and grew up in Houston. He earned his B.A. in English from Rice University, and an M.A. in English from the University of Washington,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/webb/intro.html |title=''PoetryNet'' > Poet of the Month > November 2001 > Charles Harper Webb |publisher=Poetrynet.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref> and an M.F.A. in Professional Writing and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California. He teaches at California State University, Long Beach, where he received a Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and he lives in Long Beach, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/charles_harper_webb_1 |title=''Poets & Writers'' > Directory of Writers > Charles Harper Webb |publisher=Pw.org |date=June 9, 2011 |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id101.html |title=''Poem of the Week'' > Charles Harper Webb Bio |publisher=Poemoftheweek.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222092343/http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id101.html |archive-date=February 22, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Honors and awards== * 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/15453-charles-harper-webb |title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows |publisher=Gf.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229144123/http://www.gf.org/fellows/15453-charles-harper-webb |archive-date=February 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1999 Felix Pollack Prize, for ''Liver'' * 1998 Whiting Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/charles-harper-webb|title=Charles Harper Webb}}</ref> * 1998 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for ''Reading the Water'' * 1997 Morse Poetry Prize, for ''Reading the Water'' * Academy of American Poets Prize

==Published works== '''Full-Length Poetry Collections''' * {{cite book| title=Brain Camp| isbn=978-0-82296-338-7| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2015 }} * {{cite book| title=What Things Are Made Of| isbn=978-0-82296-229-8| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2013 }} * {{cite book| title=Shadow Ball| isbn=978-0-82296-042-3| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2009 }} * {{cite book| title=Amplified Dog| isbn=978-1-59709-022-3| publisher=Red Hen Press| year=2006 }} * {{cite book| title=Hot Popsicles | publisher=University of Wisconsin Press| year=2005| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmMtIotQH2MC&q=Charles+Harper+Webb| isbn=978-0-299-20994-0 }} * {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9MwgGRE5xiIC&q=Charles+Harper+Webb| title=Tulip farms and leper colonies: poems| publisher=BOA Editions, Ltd.| year=2001| isbn=978-1-929918-15-7 }} * {{cite book| title=Liver | publisher=University of Wisconsin Press| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H9oAsEghlPYC&q=Charles+Harper+Webb| isbn=978-0-299-16574-1| date=September 14, 1999 }} * {{cite book | title=Reading the Water | publisher=Northeastern University Press | year=1997 | isbn=978-1-55553-325-0 | url=https://archive.org/details/readingwater00webb }} * {{cite book| title=A Webb for All Seasons| publisher=Applezaba Press| year=1992| isbn=978-0-930090-58-6 }} * ''Poetry That Heals'' (Red Wind Books, 1991) * ''Everyday Outrages'' (Red Wind Books, 1989)<ref name="Libraryof">{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=charles+harper+webb&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick |title=Library of Congress Online Catalog > Charles Harper Webb |publisher=Catalog.loc.gov |date=October 15, 2000 |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref> * ''Zinjanthropus Disease'' (Querencia Press, 1978)<ref>{{cite book|author=Webb, Charles |url=https://openlibrary.org/b/OL4757765M/Zinjanthropus_disease |title=> Catalog > ''Zinjanthropus Disease'' |year=1978 |publisher=Open Library |ol=4757765M |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref>

'''Anthologies Edited''' * ''Stand-Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology'' (University of Iowa Press, 2002) * ''Stand-Up Poetry: The Anthology'' (California State University Press, 1994) * ''Stand-Up Poetry: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond'' (Red Wind Books, 1990)<ref name="Libraryof" />

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100309144739/http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id102.html Interview: ''Poem of the Week'' > Oct. 12, 2007 > ''An Interview with Charles Harper Webb'' by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum] * Audio: {{cite journal| url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/webb5.htm| title=Silent Letters | journal=Cortland Review|date=November 1998}} * Poem: {{cite journal| url=http://jacketmagazine.com/10/webb-c-h.html| title=What We Believe | journal=Jacket 10|date=October 1999}} * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182899 Poem: Poetry Foundation > ''The Animals are Leaving'' by Charles Harper Webb] * Poem: {{cite journal| url=http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1999/summer/webb-funktionslust/| title=Funktionslust| journal=Virginia Quarterly Review| date=Summer 1999 | pages=512–513 }} * Essay: {{cite journal| url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/06/spring/webb_e.html| title=The Pleasure Of Their Company: Voice And Poetry| journal=Cortland Review| date=Spring 2006 }}

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