Joshua Weiner (born 1963

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) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Life

He graduated from

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, and earned his PhD in English and American Literature at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He served as the writing coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and as a visiting assistant professor at

. He lives in

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, with his wife, the novelist Sarah Blake, and two sons, and teaches literature and poetry workshops at

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

, where he is Professor of English. He is also the poetry editor of ''Tikkun'' magazine. His work has appeared in ''Best American Poetry'', the ''Nation'', the ''American Scholar'', ''New York Review of Books'', ''Chicago Tribune'', ''Threepenny Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Chicago Review'', ''Boston Review'', ''B O D Y'','' Yale Review'', ''Slate'', ''The New Republic'', and other journals.

Awards

* 2000 Witter Bynner Fellowship * 2002 Whiting Award * 2003 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters * 2012-2013 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship * 2014 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Works

"Found Letter", ''Poetry Foundation''

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Essays

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Editor

Review

I've always been impressed by Joshua Weiner's formal intelligence and his sure knowledge of how to make a poem. He's learned as much from Mina Loy, Robert Duncan, and Tom McGrath as he has from
Thom Gunn Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with Movement (literature), The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adop ...
,
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...
, and
George Herbert George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotio ...
. His poems are open to many different kinds of aesthetic approaches, including those of jazz and the blues. Like the modernists, he's embraced the past, but unlike some of them, he's alert to the formal possibilities lurking in popular culture. Among the squares, he is hip; among the hip, he is wary. So watch out. His poems are tonal land mines.

References

External links

Official websiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation

"Interview with Joshua Weiner", ''Library of Congress''
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