Joanie Mackowski

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

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

She 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.

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

• "Bad Annunciation", Slate, Sept. 4, 2007
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• View from a Temporary Window, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8229-6055-9

Anthologies

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• 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

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?