Catherine Imbriglio

Catherine Imbriglio is an American poet.

Life
Catherine was born and lives in Rhode Island. She graduated from Regis College, Boston College, and with an M.A. in creative writing in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy and Ph.D.]] in 1995 in English  and American literature in 1995, from Brown University,. She teaches at Brown University.

Her work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Caliban, Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Conjunctions, Contemporary Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, First Intensity, Indiana Review, New American Writing, No: A Journal of the Arts, Pleiades, WebConjunctions.

Writing
Indiana Review: "Catherine Imbriglio's Parts of the Mass - a collection that trembles with the passion of the Catholic liturgy - resonates like a well-struck tuning fork. Imbriglio has so heavily infused these poems with the sounds and rhythms of the Mass that the book becomes a testament to divinely-used language comingling with secular, everyday forms."

Reginald Shepherd: "Catherine Imbriglio is an extravagantly talented poet. Her work has a rare boldness of attack and scope, both conceptual and emotional. Informed by the work of John Ashbery (on whom she wrote her doctoral dissertation at Brown University, where she also received her MA in creative writing), of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Emily Dickinson, and the English Metaphysicals (who, like her, delighted in reuniting the disparate, torn pieces of this world into unexpected wholes), she has forged a unique and unmistakable poetic idiom."

Recognition

 * 2008 Norma Farber First Book Award Parts of the Mass
 * Untermeyer fellowship in poetry
 * merit award in poetry from the RI State Council on the Arts
 * Brown University UCS award for excellence in teaching.

Anthologized

 * The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (edited by Reginald Shepherd). University of Iowa Press, 2004.