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American poet
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About Bruce Weigl
- Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College.
- Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service.
- He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star.
- When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire.
- From 1975-76, Weigl was an instructor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. Weigl's first full-length collection of poems, A Romance, was published in 1979.
- Afterwards, he received a Ph.D.
- from the University of Utah in 1979, he was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas and later held the same position at Old Dominion University.
- Weigl additionally served as the president of the Associated Writing Programs.During the 1980s, Weigl published two more poetry collections, The Monkey Wars and Song of Napalm.
- In 1986, Weigl became an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and was later promoted to a professor of English.
- In 1999, he published two more poetry collections, Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems and After the Others.
- He left Penn State in 2000 and took a position at Lorain County Community College as a distinguished professor. He also published a memoir that year titled The Circle of Hanh: A Memoir.
- Many of Weigl's poems are inspired by the time he spent in the U.S.
- Army and Vietnam.
- In The Circle of Hanh, Weigl writes, "The war took away my life and gave me poetry in return...the fate the world has given me is to struggle to write powerfully enough to draw others into the horror." In addition to writing his own poetry, Weigl worked with Thanh T.
- Nguyen of the Joiner Research Center to translate poems of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers captured during war.
- Weigl and Nguten accepted an invitation from the Vietnamese Writers Association and traveled to Hanoi to receive assistance in translating the poems.
- His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
