Mark Strand
April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014
Countries:
USA, Canada
Place of Birth:
Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Place of Death:
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.