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Assistant Professor & Assistant Department Head
Coordinator, Creative Writing Program
English - Tenure-Track Faculty
350G McMicken Hall
513-556-3207
joanie.mackowski@uc.edu
http://homepages.uc.edu/~mackowje

Professional Summary

Joanie Mackowski is the author of two books of poems: View from a Temporary Window (forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press later in 2009) and The Zoo (University of Pittsburgh Press 2002). Her awards include the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Recently Mackowski's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, edited by Heather McHugh and David Lehman, The Yale Review, Poetry, The American Scholar, New England Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, on MSN's Slate online magazine (http://slate.com), The Kenyon Review, and in other journals. Mackowski has taught at the college level since 1993, and in 2007 she won the Department's Boyce Award for Teaching. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a journalist, a French translator, and a juggler. She’s originally from Connecticut.

Education

PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004 (English).

MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, 1991 (Poetry).

BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1985 (English).

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-century American poetry; the "New Critics" and what happened to them; literary theory; pedagogy.

Research Support

Summer Fellowship, Taft Research Center, Univ of Cincinnati. Funded 2008

University Research Council Fellowship, Univ. of Cincinnati. Funded 2005

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship, Funded 2001

Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry, Funded 2000

Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, Funded 2000

Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University. Funded 1998 to 2000.

Book Chapters

"When I was a dinosaur." Best American Poetry 2007. Ed. Heather McHugh and David Lehman. New York: Scribner’s, 2007.

"Four Poems." Marianne Moore: A Right Good Salvo of Barks. Ed. Leavell, Schulze, Yost. Bucknell University Press 2005.

"Five Poems." Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. Ed. David Yezzi. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press-Swallow Press, 2009.

"Boarding: Hemaris thysbe." In Best American Poetry 2009, David Wagoner and David Lehman, eds. Scribners: Forthcoming 2009.

Book of Poems

The Zoo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. [Link]

View from a Temporary Window. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Poems

"To a Sea Urchin." Smartish Pace. 2007.

"Sunday." Smartish Pace. 2007.

"Matter." Smartish Pace. 2007.

"One afternoon (A woman sat at home, absent mindedly)." Smartish Pace. 2007.

“Prayer.” Kenyon Review. Volume 28, No. 4 (Fall 2006).

"Tea Party.” Poetry. Volume 188, No. 4 (August 2006): 290.

“When I was a dinosaur.” Pool. Volume 4 (2005): 57.

"Story.” Slate, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co LLC 2005. 17 May 2005 [Link]

"The House Gift." Poetry. 2004.

"Lullaby." Poetry. 2004.

"One Afternoon." Poetry. 2004.

“Odd Wedding.” Prairie Schooner Vol. 78, Issue 3 (October 2004): 108-111.

“Stalemate.” Prairie Schooner Vol. 78, Issue 3 (October 2004): 108-111.

“Missouri Botanical Garden.” Raritan Vol. 23, Issue 3 (February 2004): 149-51.

“Lingerie Department.” Southwest Review Vol. 88, Issues 2 & 3 (2003): 333.

“The Larger.” Poetry Vol. 183, Issue 1 (October 2003): 8.

“Under the Shadow.” The Yale Review Vol. 91, Issue 1 (January 2003): 108-109.

“Conversation Pieces.” The New England Review Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2002):118-122.

“Directions.” New England Review Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter 2001): 75-76.

"Self Portrait, Double Exposed.” The Paris Review Vol. 43, No. 158 (2001): 196-198.

"View from the Bluff,” The Fiddlehead (Winter 2000).

"Cemetery on the Commons.” The Fiddlehead Vol. 204 (Summer 2000): 31-34.

“Zeros, veers.” The Fiddlehead Vol. 204 (Summer 2000): 31-34.

“Lunch by the Construction Site and After.” The Yale Review Vol. 88 No. 4 (October 2000): 54-55.

“Ants.” Poetry Vol. 176, Issue 6 (2000): 8-9.

"Iceberg Lettuce.” Poetry Vol. 173, Issue 3 (1999): 232-233.

“Wild.” Poetry Vol. 173, Issue 3 (1999): 232-233.

“Matter and Rapture.” Fine Madness Issue 24 (1998): 7

"Generals and Specifics, Sublimes and Subordinates.” Fine Madness Issue 24 (1998): 7.

"At the Zoo.” Southwest Review Vol 83, Issue 1 (1998): 62-64.

"Song for Dancing.” Boston Review Vol. 22, Issue 5 (1997): 24.

"San Francisco Bay Landscape.” Boston Review Vol. 22, Issue 5 (1997): 24.

"The Hat of Miss Magee.” Boston Review Vol. 22, Issue 5 (1997): 24..

“Some Kind of Blues.” Boston Review Vol. 22, Issue 5 (1997): 24.

"Unusual Cloud Formations.” Boston Review Vol. 22, Issue 5 (1997): 24.

"Waiting.” Paris Review Vol. 39, Issue 144 (1997): 79-81.

“Arvida Community,” Western Humanities Review Vol. 51, Issue 4 (1997): 399-401.

"The Oracle,” Western Humanities Review Vol. 51, Issue 4 (1997): 399-401.

“Geese and Billie Holiday,” Western Humanities Review Vol. 51, Issue 4 (1997): 399-401.

“Electric Storm on Brayton Point.” The Yale Review July 1997

“Vanishing Points.” Antioch Review Vol. 54, Issue 2 (1996): 156-157.

“What A Little Bird Said.” Antioch Review Vol. 54, Issue 2 (1996): 156-157.

“Star Gazing.” Carolina Quarterly Vol. 49, Issue 1 (1996): 38.

“View From the Porch.” Southwest Review Vol. 81, Issue 1 (1996): 118-119.

“Falling Backwards.” Third Coast Issue 3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 43.

“Seattle To Boston.” The Yale Review Vol. 83, Issue 4 (October 1995): 70-71.

"Deaths and Weather.” Poetry Northwest Vol. 31, Issue 3 (Autumn 1990): 45-47.

“The Woman who has Everything.” Poetry Northwest Vol. 31, Issue 3 (Autumn 1990): 45-47.

“Her Day Speaks for Sleeplessness.” Poetry Northwest Vol. 31, Issue 3 (Autumn 1990): 45-47.

“The Cleaning.” Poetry Northwest Volume 32, Issue 4 (Winter 1991-91): 38-43.

“The Reception.” Poetry Northwest Volume 32, Issue 4 (Winter 1991-91): 38-43.

“Through the Ravine.” Poetry Northwest Volume 32, Issue 4 (Winter 1991-91): 38-43.

“Plate 10: Ducks Overhead (As the Sportsman Sometimes Sees Them).” Poetry Northwest Vol. 31, Issue 4 (Winter 1990-91): 43-47.

“The Better Vantage for Love.” Poetry Northwest Vol. 31, Issue 4 (Winter 1990-91): 43-47.

"Boarding: Hemaris Thysbe." The American Scholar. 2008.

"Song." Third Coast. 2007.

"One Afternoon." Third Coast. 2007.

"Autumnal Equinox: Walking in the Dark." Poetry. 2007.

"One Afternoon (A woman walked outside)." Poetry. 2007.

"Bad Annunciation." Slate. 2007. [Link]

"Self-Portrait, Double-Exposed." Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Website. Ed. Boller, Selby, Yost. Sourcebooks, Inc 2003.

“The House Gift,” “Lullaby,” and “One Afternoon.” Poetry Vol 185, Issue 2 (November 2004): 107-110.

“Dead Ringers,” “Portrait of a Man with Book and Sky,” “In Between (Visiting in Florida.” Del Sol Review, Issue 11. Editor Michael Neff. Web Del Sol Washington, DC April 2004.

“Song for Dancing.” The Writer’s Chronicle Vol. 34, No. 6 (2002): 10.

"Out the Window, Before Daybreak, In Ohio." The Yale Review. Forthcoming October 2009.

Other Publications

"Story." Poetry Calendar 2007: 365 Classic and Contemporary Poems. Ed. Shafiq Naz. Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2007.

"One Afternoon (On tip toe)." Poetry Calendar 2008. Ed. Shafiq Naz. Belgium: Alhambra Press, 2007.

"Lullaby." The Poetry Dictionary (2nd Ed.). Ed. Drury, John. Writer’s Digest Press 2005.

"Q&A." Poetry 190 (2007): 273.

Invited Presentations

(12-2007). Jules Rickelbach Memorial Reading, Fall River Community College.

(08-2007). Sarabande Reading Series, Louisville, KY.

(04-2007). Poetry in the Garden. Cincinnati Public Library

(11-2003). Contemporary Poets Series, Hammer Gallery, UCLA.

(04-2003). Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

(09-2002). Susquehanna University

(05-2002). Stanford University

(05-2002). Gene(sis) Conference: Art and Science, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.

(04-2002). Westminster College, Fulton, MO.

(03-2002). Associated Writing Programs Conference, New Orleans, LA.

(10-2000). Poets House, NYU, New York .

Paper Presentations

Confession and the ‘Breakthrough’ in Eliot’s “Four Quartets". Midwest Modern Language Association. 11-2004.

Poetry and The Problem of Essence: What is ‘Voice,’ and How Do We Teach It?. Midwest Modern Language Association. 11-2002.

Honors & Awards

Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University.