Comment: Almost all the sources are primary and/or not independent. What Seigel has written or said cannot not be used to establish notability. Generally for authors multiple critical reviews for multiple works by reputable publications/critics are needed to establish notability. S0091 (talk) 17:24, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
M. Bartley Seigel (born Matthew Bartley Seigel in 1974 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American poet, editor, and teacher.
Early Life and Education
Seigel was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Maple Valley Township, Montcalm County, Michigan. He graduated high school from Lakeview Community High School in Lakeview, Michigan. He received a BA in journalism from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and holds an MFA in creative writing from Pennsylvania State University, State college, Pennsylvania.
Career
Seigel is a literature and writing professor at Michigan Technological University, where he also directs the university's writing center.[1] He was the founding editor of the influential American literary magazine, PANK, which he co-edited with Roxane Gay from 2006 until 2015.[2][3] He was appointed as poet laureate of the Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 2021 for a two year term[4]—the fourth person to hold that position. In the same year, he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship.[5] In 2024, he was a featured poet in Michigan Words, a statewide billboard campaign celebrating contemporary Michigan poetry, featuring the works of contemporary Michigan poets, and funded by Michigan Department of Education and the Academy of American Poets.[6][7]
Publishing
Seigel is the author of two poetry collections: This is What They Say, published by Typecast Publishing (2013)[8][9]; and In the Bone-Cracking Cold, published by Wayne State University Press (2025).[10] His poetry has been widely published in literary magazines such as Poetry Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Fourth River, as well as in anthologies such the Michigan State University Press' And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917–2017.
References
- ^ "Humanities Faculty M. Bartley Seigel". Michigan Technological University. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "Literary Heirs". New York Times. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Lockwood, Josh (15 December 2015). "Complicating Literature: An Interview With M. Bartley Seigel, Outgoing Editor of PANK". Electric Lit. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Baer, April (15 December 2021). "M. Bartley Seigel, 2021-2022 poet laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula". Stateside, Michigan Public Radio. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "23 poets laureate including two from Michigan receive grants of up to $50,000". Detroit Free Press. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "Michigan Words". Library of Michigan. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Hetzel, T (11 December 2024). "Michigan Words: Nandi Comer, Brittany Rogers, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and M. Bartley Seigel". Living Writers, WCBN. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Pursley, John (2012). "On M. Bartley Seigel". Diagram. 12 (5). Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Furiani, Jessica (25 March 2013). "Interview: M. Bartley Seigel on "This is What They Say"". Stated Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ Sutherland, Matt (1 March 2025). "Review of In the Bone-Cracking Cold". No. March / April 2025. Foreword. Retrieved 9 March 2025.