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Joshua
Mehigan
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| Education |
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MFA,
Creative Writing (Poetry), Sarah
Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1992–1994. |
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BA,
Philosophy, Purchase
College, Purchase, NY, 1987–1991. |
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For
The Optimist |
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Finalist, Los
Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 2005. |
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Editor’s
Choice, Griffin
Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2005. |
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Nominee, 2005
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, 2005.
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Big Ten University Press Pick, ForeWord,
2004. |
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Hollis
Summers Poetry Prize winner, selected by poet James Cummins, 2004. |
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General |
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Pushcart
Prize winner, Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses,
2005. |
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Walter
E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee
Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2005. |
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Dogwood
Poetry Prize winner, for “Promenade,” February 2004.
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Tennessee
Williams Scholar, Sewanee
Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2000.
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Publications
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Book |
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The
Optimist. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Second printing,
summer 2005. |
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Chapbook |
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Confusing
Weather. West Chester: Black Cat Press, 1998. Letterpress edition
of one hundred fifty. |
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Poems
in Periodicals |
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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.
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Essays
and Articles |
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“Curious
Specimens: An Exchange,”
with Cate Marvin. A review of Daniel Anderson’s
Drunk in Sunlight and Alice Oswald’s
Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems. Poetry,
May 2008. |
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Commentary
on poem 50 from Tennyson’s
In Memoriam. Poetry
Daily National Poetry Month “Poet’s Pick,”
subscriber e-mailing, Apr. 2005. |
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“The
Interior of a Heron’s Egg: Michael Donaghy 1954–2004.”
A remembrance of poet Michael Donaghy. Printed in The New Criterion,
Apr. 2005. |
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“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). |
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Reviews.
Presented on The Burning Deck, a radio segment on WRVG-FM,
Georgetown, KY, 2000–2001. |
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| Teaching
Experience |
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Visiting
Writer, Centre College,
Danville, KY, Apr. 2007. |
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Visiting
Writer, Stonecoast
MFA Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, Jan.
2007. |
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Adjunct
Lecturer and Tutor, English Department, Bronx Community College,
Bronx, NY, 2003.
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Teaching
Assistant, MFA Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY,
1994.
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Volunteer |
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Adult
ESL Teacher, Bellevue/NYU
Program for Survivors of Torture, New York, NY, 2002–2004. |
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Adult
GED English Teacher, Morningside Heights Educational Alliance, New
York, NY, 1995. |
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Additional
Activity |
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Panelist,
Fellows’ Panel, Sewanee
Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 2005. |
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Interview
subject, Poets’ Café, Radio
Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. and Jan. 2005. |
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Panelist,
Poetry: The Magic of Words, Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 2005. |
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Panelist,
The Life and Poetry of Edgar Bowers, How
Shall a Generation Know Its Story: The Edgar Bowers Conference and
Exhibition, Apr. 2003. |
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Book
Review Editor, The Burning Deck, a radio segment on WRVG-FM,
Georgetown, KY, 2000–2001. |
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Freelance
Editor, 1999–present. |
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Web
Designer, numerous writers’ and artists’ Web sites, 1998–present. |
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Editor,
Poets & Writers Online
(www.pw.org), 1998–2001.
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Content
Consultant, Addison Wesley Longman’s English
Literature Pages, 1998–1999. |
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Readings
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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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