Iain Haley Pollock, M.F.A.

Director, MFA Program
Iain Haley Pollock, M.F.A., Director of the MFA Program at 91Ö±²¥

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Iain Haley Pollock is the author of the poetry collections Spit Back a Boy ²¹²Ô»å Ghost, Like a Place (2018). His poems have also appeared in many literary outlets, including African American Review, American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, The New York Times Magazine, PoetrySociety.org ²¹²Ô»å The Progressive. Outside of publishing poems, Pollock performs his work widely, from the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival to libraries and art centers; he curated the Rye Poetry Path, a public poetry installation in Rye, NY; he serves on the editorial board at Slapering Hol Press and Tiger Bark Press; and he edits the literary journal Inkwell 

  • Poetry Workshop
  • Topics in Grad Creative Writing: The Nature of Influence
  • Topics in Grad Creative Writing: Formal Experimentation

B.A., English, Haverford College

M.F.A., Creative Writing, Syracuse University

Spit Back a Boy
2011, University of Georgia Press

Ghost, Like a Place
2018, Alice James Books

Cave Canem Fellowship 
200
6, 2008, 2009

Cave Canem Poetry Prize 
2010

NAACP Image Award (nomination)
2019