DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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

Poetry & Poetics

Books

A Poet's Guide to Poetry, 2nd edition (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

California Sorrow (Knopf, 2007)

A Poets Prose: Selected Writings Of Louise Bogan (Swallow Press , 2005)

Drift: Poems (Knopf, 2003)

Ghost Ship: Poems (Knopf, 1996)

The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series) (University of Michigan Press , 1995)

Autumn Eros & Others Poems (Knopf, 1993)

The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling (University Of Chicago Press, 1993)

Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems (Sheep Meadow, 1990)

Tales of Arturo Vivante (Sheep Meadow, 1990)

Threshold of the Year (University of Missouri Press, 1982)

Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History (Pushcart Press, 1979)

Prose for Borges (Northwestern University Press, 1974)