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Joshua Mehigan
 
E-mail: jmehigan@earthlink.net
Education
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1992–1994.
BA, Philosophy, Purchase College, Purchase, NY, 1987–1991.
Honors
  For The Optimist
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 2005.
Editor’s Choice, Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2005.

Nominee, 2005 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, 2005.

Big Ten University Press Pick, ForeWord, 2004.
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize winner, selected by poet James Cummins, 2004.
 
  General
Pushcart Prize winner, Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses, 2005.
Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2005.

Dogwood Poetry Prize winner, for “Promenade,” February 2004.

Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2000.

Publications
  Book
The Optimist. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Second printing, summer 2005.
 
  Chapbook
Confusing Weather. West Chester: Black Cat Press, 1998. Letterpress edition of one hundred fifty.
 
  Poems in Anthologies
“Riddle.” Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. New York: Penguin, 2006.
“Last Chance at Reconciliation.” Writing Metrical Poems. Cincinnati: Writers Digest, 2006.
“Promenade.” Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses. Wainscott: Pushcart, 2005.
“Sad Stories,” “The Sponge,” “A Contract.” Poetry Calendar. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
 
  Poems in Periodicals

Poems in Poetry, New York Times, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, New York Sun, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Cortland Review, Akzente (German tr. by Christophe Fricker), and many other periodicals.

 
  Essays and Articles
Curious Specimens: An Exchange, with Cate Marvin. A review of Daniel Andersons Drunk in Sunlight and Alice Oswalds Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems. Poetry, May 2008.
Commentary on poem 50 from Tennysons In Memoriam. Poetry Daily National Poetry Month “Poet’s Pick,” subscriber e-mailing, Apr. 2005.
  The Interior of a Heron’s Egg: Michael Donaghy 1954–2004.” A remembrance of poet Michael Donaghy. Printed in The New Criterion, Apr. 2005.
“Introduction to Poetry.” Remembrance of the late poet Edgar Bowers. Presented at the Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition, UCLA, Apr. 2003. Printed in Castrum Peregrini, 2006 (German tr. by Christophe Fricker).
Reviews. Presented on The Burning Deck, a radio segment on WRVG-FM, Georgetown, KY, 2000–2001.
 
Teaching Experience
Visiting Writer, Centre College, Danville, KY, Apr. 2007.
Visiting Writer, Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, Jan. 2007.

Adjunct Lecturer and Tutor, English Department, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY, 2003.

Teaching Assistant, MFA Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1994.

  Volunteer
Adult ESL Teacher, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, New York, NY, 2002–2004.
Adult GED English Teacher, Morningside Heights Educational Alliance, New York, NY, 1995.
 
Additional
Activity
Panelist, Fellows’ Panel, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2005.
Interview subject, Poets’ Café, Radio Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. and Jan. 2005.
Panelist, Poetry: The Magic of Words, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 2005.
Panelist, The Life and Poetry of Edgar Bowers, How Shall a Generation Know Its Story: The Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition, Apr. 2003.
Book Review Editor, The Burning Deck, a radio segment on WRVG-FM, Georgetown, KY, 2000–2001.
Freelance Editor, 1999–present.
Web Designer, numerous writers’ and artists’ Web sites, 1998–present.

Editor, Poets & Writers Online (www.pw.org), 1998–2001.

Content Consultant, Addison Wesley Longman’s English Literature Pages, 1998–1999.
 
  Readings
  Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, New York Public Library, Barnes and Noble stores, KPFK Los Angeles, Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence College, C.W. Post, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, CCNY, Mad Alex Arts Foundation, NYU Writers’ House, and many others.
 
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