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Richard H. Behm
Richard H. Behm has been teaching at UWSP since 1976. He completed his undergraduate degree in English at the University of St. Thomas. After two years in the Air Force, he entered graduate school at Bowling Green University, receiving a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing (Poetry emphasis) in 1973 and a Ph.D. in literature in 1976.
He has won three creative writing fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board (two in poetry and one in fiction). He has published more than 200 poems in various literary magazines including The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Yankee, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, Cimarron Review, and Poet Lore. He has published seven chapbooks of poems in limited editions: Letters from a Cage & Other Poems, This Winter Afternoon of Angels, Simple Explanations, The Book of Moonlight, When the Wood Begins to Move, The Real Toad, and In the Winter of the Heart. His poems have also been printed in several anthologies.
He has also published widely in popular magazines, especially in outdoor publications. His essays and articles have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Sports Afield, Field & Stream, Wisconsin Trails, Gray's Sporting Journal, Sporting Classics, In-Fisherman, and Peterson's Hunting Annual. His essay, "First Fish: Of Fathers and Their Children," appears in Harvest Moon: A Wisconsin Outdoor Anthology.
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