In 2003, she was named Poet Laureat of the United States. It also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Vermont, and was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. The 'Wild Iris', perhaps her most award winning collection acquired the highest honor possible in 1993, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Richard Sikens Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Other collections include 'The Garden' and 'The Wild Iris'. Her collection 'Ararat', (1990) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbett National Prize for Poetry. Gluck has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannas Literary Award for Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowments for the Arts. It received the National Book Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. In 1985, 'The Triumph of Achilles' was released to thunderous applause, gaining awards in every category. Full of angry emotion and disturbing tone, her poetry deals with the horrible and painful. Known for her well-crafted use of verse and meter, she first garnered attention with 'Firstborn', a collection of poetry from 1968. Louise Gluck is considered one of the most gifted poets of her generation.

Her last appointment was as Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College. In 1993, she was an editor of The Best American Poetry anthology. Seven years later she published 'The House on the Marshland', and in 1985, 'The Triumph of Achilles' won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1968, her first collection entitled 'Firstborn' was published.

After graduation, Gluck began teaching poetry, accepting positions at various colleges and universities. She is best known for her award winning collection entitled 'The Wild Iris'. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, both in New York State. Louise Elizabeth Gluck, 1943 - Louise Gluck was born Apin New York City, New York.

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