Mary Kinzie

Professor of English and Director, Creative Writing (English Major in Writing)

University Hall Room 224
Telephone: (847) 491-5618
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: mkinzie@northwestern.edu

Mary Kinzie, poet and critic, M.A. Johns Hopkins University, Writing Seminars (fiction), Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, English. Author of seven poetry collections, including Summers of Vietnam (Sheep Meadow), Autumn Eros (Knopf), Ghost Ship (Knopf), and Drift (Knopf, 2003), and the new collection of poems and lyrical essays called California Sorrow (Knopf 2007). Two volumes of critical essays, The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose (Chicago) and The Judge Is Fury (University of Michigan "Poets on Poetry" series), were followed by A Poet's Guide to Poetry (Chicago), her critical handbook on poetry and prosody. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and the Folger Shakespeare Library's

O. B., Hardison Poetry award she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Publications by Mary Kinzie

California Sorrow

Drift: Poems

A Poets Prose: Selected Writings Of Louise Bogan

The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling

The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series)

Ghost Ship: Poems

Autumn Eros & Others Poems

Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems

A Poet's Guide to Poetry

Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History (ed.)

Prose for Borges (ed. and intro.)

Threshold of the Year

Tales of Arturo Vivante (ed. and intro.)

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