Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey
Born (1973-09-03) September 3, 1973
Germany
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University;
Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Spouse Rob Casper

Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published three collections, most recently, Modern Life (Graywolf Press, 2007), which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book.[1]

Life

She was born in Germany, and grew up in England and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2] She currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[3] She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey and is married to editor Rob Casper.

Harvey has served as the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary as well as a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB.

She has published poems in literary magazines including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope,[4] Ploughshares,[5] The American Poetry Review.[6]

Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's Modern Life, as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the “Terror of the Future” and “The Future of Terror,” as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment." [7] Although Harvey has said that she "didn’t set out to write political poems," but to explore "that idea of living in the middle of contradiction—in the grey area, between yes and no,"[8] the two poems were nonetheless acclaimed by The New York Times as "among the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political atmosphere . . . all the more surprising coming from a writer whose sensibility seems so resistant to our usual ideas about 'political poetry.' "[9]

Published works

Poetry Collections
Children's Books
In Translation

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle
  2. ↑ Poetry Foundation - Poet: Matthea Harvey - Bio
  3. ↑ Interview with Matthea Harvey at Bookslut
  4. ↑ Slope - Issue 11 - 12, July - October 2001
  5. ↑ Ploughshares - Authors & Articles - Matthea Harvey
  6. ↑ The American Poetry Review - Mar/Apr 2003 Vol. 32/No. 2
  7. ↑ Poetry Foundation Interview with Matthea Harvey
  8. ↑ Interview with Matthea Harvey, Tarpaulin Sky, August 2006
  9. ↑ Review of Modern "Life in The New York Times, 17 February 2008

External links

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