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He graduated from Northwestern University, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Joshua Weiner
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He served as the writing coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University. He lives in Washington, District of Columbia He is also the poetry editor of Tikkun magazine. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Nation, the American Scholar, New York of Books, Chicago Tribune, Threepenny, TriQuarterly, Chicago, Boston, B O Doctorate Y, Yale, Slate, The New Republic, and other journals.
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, Thomas Hardy, and George Herbert. 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.
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Rome Prize Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship; Whiting award; Rome Prize 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 FellowshipRome Prize Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship; Whiting award; Rome Prize 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