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Matthea Harvey in 2014. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, prose writer, and academic.

Life[]

Harvey was born in Germany, and grew up in England and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[1]

She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[2] She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey, and is married to editor Rob Casper.

Harvey has served as the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary, as well as a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB. She has published 3 collections, including Modern Life (Graywolf Press, 2007).[3] She has published poems in literary magazines including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope,[4] Ploughshares,[5] The American Poetry Review.[6]

Writing[]

Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's Modern Life, as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the “Terror of the Future” and “The Future of Terror,” as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment." [7] Although Harvey has said that she "didn’t set out to write political poems," but to explore "that idea of living in the middle of contradiction—in the grey area, between yes and no,"[8] the two poems were nonetheless acclaimed by The New York Times as "among the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political atmosphere . . . all the more surprising coming from a writer whose sensibility seems so resistant to our usual ideas about 'political poetry.' "[9]

Recognition[]

Modern Life earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book.[10]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2000.
  • Sad Little Breathing Machine: Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.
  • No One Will See Themselves in You (illustrated by Doug McNamara). Montreal: Delirium Press, 2005.
  • Modern Life: Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2007.
  • The Golden Age of Figure Heads (illustrated by Amber McMillan). New York: Center for Book Arts, 2009.
  • Of Lamb (illustrated by Amy Jean Potter). San Francisco: McSweeneys Books, 2011.
  • If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?: Poems and images. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2014.

Juvenile[]

  • The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel). Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2009.
  • Cecil the Pet Glacier (illustrated by Cecille Potter). New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2012.
    Tufts_Poetry_Award_winner_Matthea_Harvey_reading_at_the_Hip_Kitty_in_Claremont

    Tufts Poetry Award winner Matthea Harvey reading at the Hip Kitty in Claremont


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Poetry Foundation > Poet: Matthea Harvey > Bio
  2. ↑ An interview with Matthea Harvey, Bookslut, October 2007. Web.
  3. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle
  4. ↑ Slope > Issue 11 - 12, July - October 2001
  5. ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Matthea Harvey
  6. ↑ The American Poetry Review > Mar/Apr 2003 Vol. 32/No. 2
  7. ↑ Poetry Foundation Interview with Matthea Harvey
  8. ↑ Interview with Matthea Harvey, Tarpaulin Sky, August 2006
  9. ↑ Review of Modern "Life in The New York Times, 17 February 2008
  10. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle
  11. ↑ Search results = au:Matthea Harvey, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 3, 2015.

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