Field-Of-Study: Poetry

Emily Fragos’s acclaimed first book of poems, Little Savage, was published by Grove Press in 2004. Her newest collection, Hostage: New & Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), was considered for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the 2014 recipient of the Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry, Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Her other volumes include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel Editions, 2005), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001), and A Star-Spangled Banner

With diagram and inscription in mind, Marjorie Welish produced In the Futurity Lounge/Asylum for Indeterminacy (2012), taking poetic advantage of the architectural sites conceived in John Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct, over the Delaware River; Hans Poelzig’s I.G. Farben plant, in Frankfurt; Rem Koolhaas’s IIT McCormick Tribune Student Center, in Chicago; and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s High

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1970, Mary Szybist is the author of two books of poems, most recently Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. Incarnadine was also named a best book of the year by Slate, NPR.org, Amazon.com, and Publishers Weekly, and it received the 2014 Oregon Book

Patricia Smith, lauded by critics as “a testament to the power of words to change lives,” is the author of six acclaimed poetry volumes. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah was winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, awarded to the best poetry book published in the United States the

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee;  a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir that combines poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography entitled Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants,  The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye, which was a finalist

Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, published by University of Chicago Press in spring 2013.  He is also the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (also from Chicago), and the poetry editor of Tikkun

Anne Waldman grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, and began writing at an early age. Poetry collections over the years have included the long chant poem Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights), the selected volumes Helping the Dreamer and In the Room of Never Grieve (both from Coffee House Press), and

Ange Mlinko is the author of four collections of poetry and numerous essays and reviews. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, Poetry, Paris Review, London Review of Books, Poetry Review (U.K.), Granta, Southern Review, and she is the recipient of the Frederick Bock Award as well as the Randall Jarrell Award for