# Richard Cecil (poet)

Richard Cecil is an American poet born on March 14, 1944, in Baltimore and lived in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Indiana University, later marrying Maura Stanton in 1971. Previously teaching at Rhodes College, currently teaching at Indiana University as a lecturer on the subject of creative writing as well as teaching in the Hutton Honors College on the same subject. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Southern Review, River Styx, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

## Life

Born on March 14, 1944, in Baltimore, Cecil married Maura Stanton in 1971, and lived in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Indiana University.
He taught at Rhodes College. He currently works at Indiana University Bloomington as a teacher of creative writing and also teaches in the Hutton Honors College. He briefly taught at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, teaching American Poetry courses and running Poetry workshops, in 1987 and 1988.
His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Southern Review, River Styx, Virginia Quarterly Review.

## Quotations

"Everything turns into gin in the end." - Richard Cecil, Hutton Honors College, Indiana University, Bloomington IN (3/18/2019).

## Awards

* 1998 Crab Orchard Award 2nd

## Works

* "Caliban and Ariel". American Poetry Review. November 1995.
* Einstein's Brain. University of Utah Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-87480-255-9.
* Alcatraz. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55753-015-8.
* In Search of the Great Dead. Crab Orchard Review. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8093-2260-2.
* Twenty first century blues. SIU Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8093-2597-9.

### Ploughshares

* "Willie Sutton's Insomnia". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-19.
* "Darwin Explains Sex in Marriage in Spring". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-20.
* "St. Anthony at Fifteen". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2006-08-19.
* "Hands in Winter". Ploughshares. Spring 1974. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "Dialogue". Ploughshares. Spring 1977. Archived from the original on 2005-02-06.
* "Dialogue". Ploughshares. Spring 1977. Archived from the original on 2005-02-06.
* "Genre Painting". Ploughshares. Winter 1984. Archived from the original on 2006-10-04.
* "Night School". Ploughshares. Winter 1984. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "Applications". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 2002-05-13.
* "The Call". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "Reply to the Goslar Letter". Ploughshares. Spring 1989. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "Reply San Francisco Modern Language Convention". Ploughshares. Spring 1989. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "In Search of the Great Dead". Ploughshares. Spring 1997. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.
* "Why I Have No Children". Ploughshares. Winter 1997–1998. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03.