Mark Wunderlich ( ; born 1968), is an American

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. He was born in

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, and grew up in a rural setting near the town of

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. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to the

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, where he studied English and German literature. After moving to

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he attended

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, where he received an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree. Wunderlich has published four collections of poetry, most recently ''God of Nothingness'' (

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, 2021). He worked on his first book, ''The Anchorage,'' (

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, 1999) as his MFA thesis at Columbia University and finished it while living in

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. There he was friends with the poet

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massach ...

(1905–2006). A second book of poems, ''Voluntary Servitude,'' was published by Graywolf Press in 2004.

Life

Wunderlich has published individual poems, essays, reviews and interviews in the ''Paris Review'', ''Yale Review'', ''Slate'', ''Fence'',Mark Wunderlich
. Literature Program. Bennington College. literature.bennington.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-21. ''Boston Review'', ''Chicago Review'', and

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. Wunderlich has taught at

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Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

, and

. Since 2004, he has been a member of the literature faculty at

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, where he is also Director of the Graduate Writing Seminars. He lives in New York's

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near the town of Catskill.

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections * * * * ;List of poems

Honors and awards

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for ''The Anchorage'' (1999) * two fellowships from the

Fine Arts Work Center The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoratio ...

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* Wallace Stegner Fellowship from

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* Writers at Work Award * Jack Kerouac Prize * Poetry Fellowship from the

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* Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council * Fellowship from the Amy Lowell Trust * Editor's Prize from the ''

Missouri Review ''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts ...

'', 2012 * 2015 Rilke Prize from the

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for ''The Earth Avails''

Reviews

''Poetry'' magazine wrote,

Mark Wunderlich's first book, ''The Anchorage'', is a vigorous, necessary attempt to make our words catch up with our changing world: 'This is America--beetles clustered with the harvest, dust roads trundling off at perfect angles, and signs proclaiming unbearable roadside attractions.' The poems are extravagantly -- perhaps I should say fiercely -- autobiographical.

References

External links

Mark Wunderlich's homepage

* * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20111013031945/http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/2117/wunderlich_11_1_10/ Poem: Gebet eines Ehemannes (A Husband's Prayer)Poems in Periodicals
"Difficult Body", ''poets.org''

"Once I Walked Out", thethepoetry.com
* * * * ; reprinted in ''

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'', guest editor

Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Biography Amy Gerstler was born in 1956. She is a graduate of Pitzer College and holds an M.F.A. from Bennington Co ...

, series editor

David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...

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