Joanie Mackowski

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

Joanie V. Mackowski, is an American poet.

Life

Mackowski grew up in Connecticut. She graduated from Wesleyan University, the University of Washington, and was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. at University of Missouri.

Mackowski taught at University of Cincinnati. She was an editor at Reconfigurations. Her work has appeared in Prairie schooner, Antioch Review, and Best American Poetry 2007.

Awards

• 2008 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
• 2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• 2000 Award Series in Poetry Associated Writing Programs

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

Richard Kenney wrote:

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?

External links

• "Interview with Joanie Mackowski" , University of Cincinnati