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Mark Strand was born on April 11, 1934 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
* He moved to the United States with his family when he was 10 years old.
* He graduated from Antioch College in 1957 and Yale University in 1959.
* He taught at several universities, including the University of Iowa, the University of Utah, and Columbia University.
* He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990.
* He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999.
* He died on November 29, 2014 in Brooklyn, New York.
* His poetry is known for its precision, imagery, and exploration of themes of absence and negation.
* He is considered one of the most important American poets of the 20th century.