Joanie Mackowski

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

Life
Born in Illinois, Mackowski grew up in Connecticut.

She graduated from Wesleyan University, from the University of Washington, from Stanford University (where she was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry), and from the University of Missouri with a Ph.D.

She taught at the University of Cincinnati. She was an editor at Reconfigurations.

Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, and Best American Poetry 2007.

Writing
Boston Review: "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?

Awards

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

Work

 * "Bad Annunciation", Slate, Sept. 4, 2007


 * View from a Temporary Window, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8229-6055-9
 * View from a Temporary Window, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8229-6055-9

Anthologies

 * 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
 * David Yezzi, ed. Five Poems. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, OUP/Swallow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8040-1121-1