HILBERRY, Conrad (Arthur) 1928-

PERSONAL: Born March 1, 1928, in Melrose Park, IL; son of Clarence (a teacher and university president) and Ruth (Haase) Hilberry; married Marion Bailey (a teacher of English as a second language), April 21, 1951; children: Marilyn, Jane, Ann. Education: Oberlin College, B.A., 1949; University of Wisconsin, M.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1954.

ADDRESSES: Home—1601 Grand Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49006. Offıce—Department of English, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49006. E-mail—hilberry@ kzoo.edu.

CAREER: DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, instructor, 1954-56, assistant professor, 1956-60, associate professor of English literature, 1960-61; Associated Colleges of the Midwest, program associate, 1961-62; Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, associate professor, 1962-67, professor of English literature, 1967—, Florence J. Lucasse fellow, 1979. Antioch College, associate director of study of liberal arts colleges, 1965-67. North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, consultant and examiner, 1959—.

MEMBER: Amnesty International, Natural Resources Defence Council, American Civil Liberties Union.

AWARDS, HONORS: Eugene Saxton fellow, Harper and Brothers, 1959; Breadloaf fellow in poetry, Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1970; fellow of Chapelbrook Foundation, 1970-71; fellow of National Endowment for the Arts, 1974-75, 1984-85; fellow at MacDowell Colony, 1977, 1983; Michigan Arts Award, Michigan Foundation for the Arts, 1983; Emily Clark Balch Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review, 1984; Iowa Prize, University of Iowa Press, 1989, for Sorting the Smoke: New and Selected Poems; fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 1991, 1993, 1994; Lifetime Achievement Award, Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry, 1998; Community Medal of Arts, Greater Kalamazoo Council for the Arts, 1998.

WRITINGS:

POETRY

Encounter on Burrows Hill, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1968.

Rust, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1974.

Man in the Attic, Bits Press (Cleveland, OH), 1980.

Housemarks, Perishable Press (Mount Horeb, WI), 1980.

Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1984.

Jacob's Dancing Tune, Perishable Press (Mount Horeb, WI), 1986.

Luke Karamazov, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1987.

The Lagoon, MellanBerry Press, 1989.

Sorting the Smoke: New and Selected Poems, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1990.

Player Piano: Poems, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1999.

Taking Notes on Nature's Wild Inventions, Snowy Egret, 1999.

Contributor of poetry to periodicals, including Antioch Review, New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Ontario Review, Tar River Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Carleton Miscellany, and Shenandoah.

EDITOR

The Poems of John Collop, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 1962.

(With Herbert Scott and James Tipton) The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1976.

(With Michael Delp and Herbert Scott) Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1988.

(With Michael Delp and Josie Kearns) New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.

OTHER

(With Morris Teuton Keeton and others) Struggle and Promise: A Future for Colleges, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1969.

(With Merwin Lewis) Beggar Moon (musical play), performed in Kalamazoo, MI, at Kalamazoo Festival Playhouse, 1987.

Contributor to books, including Youth in Transition, edited by Morton Levitt, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1972; Prospect for Renewal, edited by Earl McGrath, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1972; and My Poor Elephant: Twenty-eight Male Writers at Work, edited by Eve Shelnutt, Longstreet Press (Atlanta, GA), 1992. Contributor of essays and articles to professional journals, including College English, Educational Record, Explicator, Field, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Mademoiselle, and St. Louis Post Dispatch.