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Biography
V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet, and professor.
Life
She graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst, summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.
She has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, 32 Poems, 5 Fingers Review, The Kenyon Review, Field, the New England Review, Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, Worchester Review, and Fourth Genre.
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria.
Awards
- 2001 Norma Farber First Book Award, for Nostos, by Poetry Society of America’s
- Hollis Summers Prize
- 1997 “Discovery”/ The Nation Award
- The Kenneth Rexroth Translation Award (for Umberto Saba's poems from Italian)
- 2003 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
- Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship
Works
- "Clever and Poor". poemhunter.
- "The Monongahela Book of Hours". Language Exchange. 2003.
- Nostos. Ohio University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8214-1298-5.
- Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives. Ohio State University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0814292150.
Translation
- Umberto Saba (1999). "two poems". The Seneca Review. 24.1: 76–77.
- Umberto Saba (1997–1998). "four poems". Compost. 9: 34–35.
Pelizzon's first book of poems won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
In Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2010), Pelizzon and Nancy M. West discuss tabloid newspapers, especially those of the late 1920s and early 1930s, using a combination of narrative and film theory.