Ohioana Helen & Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award: 2008
Philip Brady
Youngstown OH
For his contributions to Poetry in Ohio
 Since his arrival in Youngstown in 1990, Philip
Brady has made important contributions to Ohio poetry. In 1994, he founded the Youngstown State
University Poetry Center, which he directs. He wrote grants resulting in over $30,000 for the YSU Poetry Center and
inspired the Muse’s Fund, which continues to grow as the Center remains a resource for both the school and the community.
From 2004-2006 Philip was the founding director of the NEOMFA (Northeastern Ohio MFA in Creative Writing), a unique
collaboration among Youngstown State University, Kent State, the University of Akron, and Cleveland State University.
From 2000-2005 he collaborated with the College of Wooster to produce a national journal of fiction and poetry,
Artful Dodge. He advises the YSU literary journal, The Penguin Review, and in 2001 he founded a national literary press,
Etruscan Press, which he also directs.
Philip Brady has brought many campus communities together, cosponsoring events with Black Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies,
Women’s Studies and the Working Class Center.
Of his poetry collections, Forged Correspondences, David Citino said, “This book is a journey through glittering
empires of the imagination.” Maxine Kumin called the book, “Wildly inventive . . .Highly seriously and richly comic, a great trip.”
Of his empathy towards his fellow man, poet William Heyen said “Philip Brady’s Forged Correspondences has been written in blood
by a poet who is a brother to the dispossessed.”
Philip Brady Website
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