Jack Ridl

Life and career

Awards

• 2013 for —Winner of the Gold Medal in the category of Poetry
• 2007 for in the category of Poetry
• 2002 Say-the-Word Poetry Award from The Ellipse Art Center in Arlington, Virginia, for "The Dry Wallers Listen to Sinatra While They Work", chosen by David St. John
• 2001 Chapbook Award from The Center for Book Arts in New York City, for Against Elegies, selected by Sharon Dolin and Billy Collins
• 1996, The Carnegie Foundation named him Michigan Professor of the Year.

  Works

• After School, Samisdat Press. 1988.
• Against Elegies, The Center for Book Arts,
• . Wayne State University Press. 2013..

  Non-fiction

• Editor