Amy Newman is a translator, American poet, and professor. She is a Presidential Research Professor at

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Life

She graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature and Language from

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. She is the author of six collections of poems, most recently ''An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness'' (Persea Books). Her other books include ''On This Day in Poetry History,'' ''Dear Editor'', winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, ''fall'', ''Camera Lyrica,'' winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, ''Order, or Disorder,'' which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Newman has received fellowships in poetry from the

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and the Ohio and Illinois Arts Councils. She was awarded the Friends of Literature Prize from The Poetry Foundation for her poem "Howl," The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation for her translations of Italian poet Antonia Pozzi, and the Neil Postman Prize in Metaphor from Rattle Magazine. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Hotel Amerika'', ''The Ohio Review'', ''Colorado Review'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Hayden's Ferry Review'', ''Willow Springs'', ''Indiana Review'', ''The Carolina Quarterly'', and ''The Connecticut Poetry Review'', and in anthologies, including ''The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries'', ''The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets In Discussion and Practice'', ''An Introduction To The Prose Poem'', ''Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books'', and ''The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry''. Her poetry has been translated and published in

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and

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. Newman was named the poetry critic at the ''

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'' in October 2006 and in the same month served as online Poet-in-Residence for the British newspaper ''

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''. She has published articles on the poets

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, W. S. Merwin,

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, and

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Family

She lives in DeKalb with her husband, Joe Bonomo.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

* ''An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness'' (Persea Books, 2024) * ''On This Day in Poetry History'' (Persea Books, 2016) * ''Dear Editor'' (Persea Books, 2012) * ''fall'' (

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, 2004/2006) * ''Camera Lyrica'' (

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...

, 1999) * ''Order, or Disorder'' (

Cleveland State University Poetry Center The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is a literary small press and poetry outreach organization in Cleveland, Ohio, operated under the auspices of the English Department at Cleveland State University. It publishes original works of poetry ...

, 1996)

Chapbooks

* ''The Sin Sonnets: A Redouble'' (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) * ''The BirdGirl Handbook'' (Green Tower Press, 2006)Green Tower Press Website

References

Sources

Ohio University Department of English > Alumni: Amy Newman

External links

Amy Newman on Twitter

Poetry Foundation > "Howl"

"Dear Editor/20 November" on PoemFlow

NARRATIVE Poem of the Week > ''An incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness''

The London Guardian Poem of the Week > ''Darwin's Unfinished Notes to Emma'' > June 2008

* ttp://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2005_05_005373.php Review: ''Bookslut.com'' Review by Sumita Sheth of ''Fall'' by Amy Newman > May 2005
''Ploughshares'' > Authors & Articles > Profile by Amy Newman of Jean Valentine > Winter 2008-09

''The Guardian'' > Thursday 5, October 2006 > Amy Newman's Poetry Workshop
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