Campbell McGrath was the ninth poet to read in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2009. Campbell McGrath is a prize-winning and popular poet whose work explores the cultural and natural landscapes of the United States. McGrath's awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a 1999 MacArthur "Genius Grant." McGrath's latest poetry collection is Seven Notebooks (2008); his previous collections include Florida Poems (2002), Spring Comes to Chicago (1996), American Noise (1993) and Capitalism (1990). McGrath currently teaches at Florida International University in Miami where he is Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing.