Mary Kinzie
Professor Emerita of English
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- mkinzie@northwestern.edu
- 847-491-7294
- University Hall 215
Biography
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, Autumn Eros, and California Sorrow (Knopf). 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), a critical handbook on poetry and prosody (2013). Mary was recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison Poetry Award. During her many years on faculty at Northwestern, she taught poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Specializations
American: 20th Century, Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics
Books
![A Poet's Guide to Poetry, 2nd edition](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie1.jpg)
![California Sorrow](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie5.gif)
![A Poets Prose: Selected Writings Of Louise Bogan](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie6.jpg)
![Drift: Poems](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie4.gif)
![Ghost Ship: Poems](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie2.gif)
![The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series)](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie8.jpg)
![Autumn Eros & Others Poems](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie9.jpg)
![The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie7.jpg)
![Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie10.jpg)
![Tales of Arturo Vivante](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie11.jpg)
![Threshold of the Year](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie15.jpg)
![Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie13.jpg)
![Prose for Borges](../../../images/faculty-publications/ex-faculty/fkinzie14.jpg)