calendar". Hollander also composed poems as "graphematic" emblems (Type of Shapes, 1969) and epistolary poems (exampled in Reflections on Espionage, 1976), and, as a critic (in Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form, 1975), offered telling insights into the relationship between words and music and sound in poetry, and in metrical experimentation, and 'the lack of a theory of graphic prosody'. Hollander influenced poets Todd LaRoche and Karl Kirchwey, who both studied under Hollander at Yale. Hollander taught Kirchwey that it was possible to build a life around the task of writing poetry. Kirchwey recalled Hollander's passion: 'Since he is a poet himself ... he conveyed a passion for that knowledge as a source of current inspiration.' Hollander also served in the following positions, among others: member of the board, Wesleyan University Press (1959–62); editorial assistant for poetry, Partisan Review (1959–65) and a contributing editor, of Harper's Magazine (1969–71). and also commenced his other role as a poetry critic. Hollander's poetry has been set to music by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, and others; in 2007 he collaborated with the Eagles, allowing them use of his poem "An Old Fashioned Song" to create the song "No More Walks in the Wood". Awards and honors 2006: Appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut (term ended in 2011) 2006: Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award 2002: Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement 1990: MacArthur Fellowship 1983: Bollingen Prize for Powers of Thirteen. 1979: elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature 1958: Yale Series of Younger Poets for his first book of poems, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W. H. Auden. Works A Crackling of Thorns (1958) poems The Untuning of the Sky (1961) The Wind and the Rain (1961) editor with Harold Bloom Movie-Going (1962) poems Philomel (1964) "cantata text" for the composition of the same name by American composer Milton Babbitt Visions from the Ramble (1965) poems Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967) with Anthony Hecht Types of Shape (1969, 1991) poems Images of Voice (1970) criticism The Night Mirror (1971) poems Town and Country Matters (1972) poems The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (1973), co-editor The Head of the Bed (1974) poems Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) poems Vision and Resonance (1975) criticism Reflections on Espionage (1976) poems Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems (1978) Blue Wine (1979) poems The Figure