Jack Ridl (born April 10, 1944) is an American poet, and was a professor of English at Hope College.[1]

Life and career

Ridl's father, Charles "Buzz" Ridl, coached basketball at Westminster College, Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. Ridl graduated from Westminster College, Pennsylvania with a BA in 1967 and M.Ed., in 1970. He lives in Laketown Township, Michigan, with his wife, Julie.[2][3][4]

His work has appeared in LIT, The Georgia Review, FIELD, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Chelsea, Free Lunch, The Journal, Passages North, Dunes Review,[5] and Poetry East. Hope College has named its Visiting Writers Series for him.[6]

The sun rises over the trees behind our
house and the dogs want out. Today

it's supposed to snow again. Tonight
we'll have soup, just the two of us

and talk about our month in Italy,
how we wondered if we could live

in all that light. We'll remember
the last time we danced alone.[5]

Awards

Works

  • The same ghost: poems. Dawn Valley Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-936014-13-5.
  • After School, Samisdat Press. 1988.
  • Between. Dawn Valley Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-936014-18-0.
  • Against Elegies, The Center for Book Arts, (2001)
  • Broken Symmetry. Wayne State University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8143-3322-8.
  • Losing Season. CavanKerry Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-933880-15-0.
  • Practicing to Walk Like a Heron. Wayne State University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8143-3539-0.

Non-fiction

  • Peter J. Schakel; Jack Ridl (1996). Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-13281-1.
  • Peter Schakel; Jack Ridl (2004). Approaching Literature in the 21st Century: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-40756-8.

Editor

  • Peter Schakel; Jack Ridl, eds. (2002). 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology. Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-46616-9. (2nd edition 2008)
  • Janet E. Gardner; Beverly Lawn; Jack Ridl; Peter Schakel, eds. (2004). Literature: A Portable Anthology. Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-46186-7. (2nd edition 2008)
  • Michael Delp; Conrad Hilberry; Herbert Scott, eds. (1988). "A Father". Contemporary Michigan poetry: poems from the third coast. Photographer Michael Delp. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1924-6.
  • Michael Delp; Conrad Hilberry; Josie Kearns, eds. (2000). "I Am Wearing Your Shirt". New poems from the third coast: contemporary Michigan poetry. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2797-5.

References

  1. ↑ "Jack Ridl". www.hope.edu. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Jack Ridl". Michigan State University Libraries.
  3. ↑ Mark Copier (August 9, 2009). "Profile of poet and teacher Jack Ridl". The Grand Rapids Press.
  4. ↑ Jon Schultz (Aug 18, 2009). "Prime Time Poet: CBS, ESPN calling as Ridl debuts 'Losing Season'". The Holland Sentinel. Archived from the original on August 22, 2009. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
  5. 1 2 Dunes Review. Volume 16 Issue 1. Winter, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series: About". hope.edu.
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