Arthur Levitt, Jr. '52 Artist-in-Residence
413-597-2672
Hollander Hall Rm 111
Office Hours: Schedule via Calendly
Education
B.A. Brown University, Literary Arts&Ethnic Studies (2011)
M.F.A. University of Michigan, Creative Writing (2018)
M.F.A. University of Michigan, Creative Writing (2018)
Courses
ENGL 223 SEM
Apocalypse Now and Then: Poets Confronting Political Crisis (not offered 2022/23)ENGL 288 SEM
Introductory Poetry Workshop: Writing as Experiment (not offered 2022/23)ENGL 399 SEM
Poetry & Performance (not offered 2022/23)Scholarship/Creative Work
Poetry Collections:
- The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Mariner Books, 2022)
- Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019)
- Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2019)
Chapbooks:
- Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)
Selected Journal Publications:
- “Celebrate Good Times,” The Nation, 2021
- “Good Morning America,” The New Republic, 2021
- “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness,” The Atlantic, 2020
- “Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon,” the New York Times, 2020
- “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On,” “Hangul Abecederian,” and others, Poetry, 2019
- “How to Let Go of the World,” PEN Poetry Series, 2019
- “Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula,” Paris Review, 2019
- “The Cyborg Watches a Video of a Neo-Nazi Saying Her Name,” The Rumpus, 2018.
- “Quarantine,” Poem-a-Day, 2018.
- Five poems, American Poetry Review, 2018.
- “They’re Cutting the Ovaries Out of Deer and Laying Them Out on Yoga Mats When They’re Done,” Waxwing, 2018.
- “Perihelion: A History of Touch,” Poetry, 2017.
- “Introduction to Quantum Theory,” The Adroit Journal, 2017.
- “& O, bright star of disaster, I have been lit,” The Paris-American, 2016
- “Turing Test,” The Poetry Review, 2016
- “Weight,” Indiana Review, 2016
- Two poems, The Margins, 2015
- “Field Trip to the Museum of Human History,” PBS NewsHour, 2015
Essays
- “On How to Wash a Heart, by Bhanu Kapil,” The Georgia Review, 2020
- “Racism is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World,” The Rumpus, 2020
- “Periodic (#6),” Palette Poetry, 2019
- “Hari Kondabolu is Not For Everyone,” Hyphen Magazine, 2019
Interviews
- NPR Life Kit, 2020
- Paris Review Blog, 2019
- Iowa Review, 2019
- NPR All Things Considered, 2019
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
- Elgin Award for Soft Science, Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2020
- Holmes National Poetry Prize, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, 2020
- Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, 2019
- Zell Postgraduate Fellowship, University of Michigan 2018-2019
- Hopwood Awards for Poetry (2017) and Drama (2018), University of Michigan
- Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, 2017
- Civitas Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2016
- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2015
- Frederick Bock Prize, Poetry Magazine, 2014
- Kundiman Fellowship
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