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

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).