Joanie Mackowski

Joanie V. Mackowski (born 1963 Illinois) is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in Connecticut. She graduated from Wesleyan University, the University of Washington, was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and from University of Missouri with a Ph.D.^[1]

She taught at University of Cincinnati.^[2] She was an editor at Reconfigurations.^[3]

Her work has appeared in Prairie schooner,^[4] Antioch Review,^[5] and Best American Poetry 2007.

Awards

• 2008 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award^[6]
• 2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• 2000 Award Series in Poetry Associated Writing Programs ^[7]

Work

• "Bad Annunciation", Slate, Sept. 4, 2007
• "Ants". Poetry. April 2000.
• "Iceberg Lettuce". Poetry. January 1999.
• "One Afternoon". Poetry. July–August 2007.
• "Tea Party". Poetry. July 2006.
• The Zoo. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8229-5768-3.
• View from a Temporary Window, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8229-6055-9

Anthologies

• Heather McHugh, David Lehman, ed. (2007). "When I was a dinosaur". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9972-5.
• David Wagoner, David Lehman, eds. "Boarding: Hemaris thysbe, The Best American Poetry 2009, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-9977-0
• David Yezzi, ed. Five Poems. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, OUP/Swallow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8040-1121-1

Reviews

Here's wildness and art, in right proportion: the wildness is surprise without swagger; the art is graceful and mostly disappearing, and otherwise a little extravagant. As in the case of jugglery (another of Joanie Mackowski's mastered arts), loopiness is nothing without the catch. Dropped clubs, flat cakes, flat notes--where but in poetry is a native gift for clumsiness, sedulously conserved, so praised? ^[8]

References

1. Heather McHugh, David Lehman, eds. (2007). The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2.
2. http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegemain/faculty_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=MTA4OTY1
3. http://karlakelsey.wordpress.com/reconfigurations/
4. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v078/78.3mackowski.pdf
5. MacKowski, J. (1996). "Vanishing Points". The Antioch Review 54 (2): 156. doi:10.2307/4613301.
6. http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyeight_poems.html
7. http://www.awpwriter.org/contests/as2000.htm
8. "Joanie Mackowski". Boston review. October–November 1997.

External links

• "Interview with Joanie Mackowski" , University of Cincinnati