John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard, where he won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned his M.F.A. and was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska to direct the creative writing program at the University of Alaska. Morgan's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, The Young American Poets (Follett) and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the Discovery Award of the New York Poetry Center, as well as first prize in the Carolina Quarterly Poetry Contest. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park.

Books by John Morgan:

Other poems on the web by John Morgan:
Eigth poems
"The Twenty-Six Years War"
"A Renaissance Altarpiece"

John Morgan's Website.

About The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems:

"These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man."
—Annie Dillard

"John Morgan, one of our finest poets, draws on incandescent, creation-laden words to reveal the 'authentic wilderness' that flourishes within us and, yes, without us."
—Michael Waters

"“Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous possibilities of the free-verse line. These poems are exposed, rich with affirmation, and always genuine."
—Bruce Weigl

"What a beautiful human endeavor Morgan's life is, expanding our vision with colorful masterful work. Poetry that is of service."
—Grace Cavalieri