Lucie Brock-Broido

Lucie Brock-Broido born "Lucy Brock" (May 22, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American poet, widely acclaimed as one of the most distinctive and influential voices of her generation. Noteworthy for her work as a teacher, Brock-Broido served as a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University, and as Professor of Creative Writing and Director of Poetry at Columbia University. Throughout her career, she mentored multiple generations of new American poets, including Tracy K. Smith, Timothy Donnelly, Kevin Young, Mary Jo Bang, Stephanie Burt, and Max Ritvo.

Brock-Broido's final collection ''Stay, Illusion,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2013 to wide-spread critical acclaim, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award. Notices of her death in ''The New York Times'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', and ''The New Yorker'', praised her “brilliant nervosity,” “beautifully embroidered, fanciful language,” and the “formal rigor and a supernatural sensibility that placed her in the lineage of revelatory American poetic voices like Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.” Provided by Wikipedia