Kirby Congdon, b. 1924, is the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, essays, letters, plays, sculptured constructions and music composition. And in order to learn more about each of them, buy literary analysis essay at https://exclusivepapers.net/buy-a-literary-analysis-paper.php this way you will spend enough time to get to know each work or the author's period of activity. A graduate of Columbia University, he has been active in the independent literary scene for over six decades. He has been the poetry editor for the Key West literary magazine, Cayo, the publisher of the litmag Magazine and was a regular contributor to The Small Press Review and The Key West Citizen. Congdon’s work is collected by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. He was one of the featured poets at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar which included seven Pulitzer Prize winners and seven poet laureates – Billy Collins, Maxine Kumin, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove and Paul Muldoon, among them. In 2011, he contributed a visual poem to All Insignificant Things Must Disappear, a group exhibition of work by internationally renowned artists at Trinity Museum in New York. In 2014, at the age of ninety, Congdon had a first showing of ethereal landscapes which he feels are his best work, created sixty-four years ago.  Also in 2014, he was the featured poet at the Frank O’Hara Poetry Festival in New York where he opened the event with his poem “Discus Thrower.”  Congdon is the first Poet Laureate of Key West, Florida.  He continues to write and compose music.

Selected Poems & Prose Poems
God is Dead (again)
Athletes
Here We Are – More Plays
Kirby Congdon – 65 Years of Poetry