Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her numerous honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. She lives in Vermont and Minnesota.

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her numerous honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. She lives in Vermont and Minnesota.

Awards

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1995

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2007

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2008

Books by Ellen Bryant Voigt

  • Headwaters: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Hardback, 2013

    A meticulously crafted new volume from the acclaimed American poet whom the Washington Post Book World called a “genius.”
  • Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Hardback, 2007

    “Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
  • Two Trees: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Paperback, 1994

  • Kyrie: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Paperback, 1997

    "Voigt's language dares to stir the dead, to remind us that we are temporary survivors."—Geoffrey Wolff
  • Shadow of Heaven: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Paperback, 2003

    Shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in Poetry.
  • Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Paperback, 2008

    “Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
  • Headwaters: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Paperback, 2015

    Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
  • Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    E Book, 2008

    “Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world.”—Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World
  • Headwaters: Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    E Book, 2013

    Driven by an urgent need to speak, these poems hurl themselves forward.
  • Collected Poems

    Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Hardback, 2023

    A monumental celebration of “one of the most significant poets writing today” (David Baker, Los Angeles Review of Books).