National Poetry Series
1 appearances
Ange Mlinko
アンジュ・ムリンコ
Anju Murinko
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1969-09-19 （Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English, Portuguese (familial)
- Residence History
- Brooklyn, New York, USA → Providence, Rhode Island, USA → Boston, Massachusetts, USA → Ifrane, Morocco (residence/work) → Florida, USA (University appointment) → Houston, Texas, USA (teaching)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, critic, university professor (poetry), editor (poetry journal)
- Active Years
- 1996-
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (Director, MFA@FLA creative writing program), The Nation (former poetry editor, 2013–2016)
- Influenced By
- Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| Brown University | — | — | MFA | — | United States |
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
Earned a BA
Brown University
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
Earned an MFA in creative writing (poetry)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | National Poetry Series | Starred Wire | — | National Poetry Series | winner |
| 2005 | James Laughlin Award | Starred Wire | — | Academy of American Poets (awarding organization) | finalist |
| 2009 | Randall Jarrell Award (Criticism) | — | 批評 | The Nation / related organizations | winner |
| 2014 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellow (2014–2015) |
| 2013 | Selected as one of The New Yorker's Best Books | Marvelous Things Overheard | — | The New Yorker | selected |
National Poetry Series
2004
Work:
Starred Wire
Organization:
National Poetry Series
Result:
winner
James Laughlin Award
2005
Work:
Starred Wire
Organization:
Academy of American Poets (awarding organization)
Result:
finalist
Randall Jarrell Award (Criticism)
2009
Category:
批評
Organization:
The Nation / related organizations
Result:
winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
2014
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
fellow (2014–2015)
Selected as one of The New Yorker's Best Books
2013
Work:
Marvelous Things Overheard
Organization:
The New Yorker
Result:
selected
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Immediate Orgy & Audit
1996 poetry 30 pagesAn early chapbook exploring urban life and individual perception.
urban lifeperceptionfragments of everyday
Matinées
1999 poetry 55 pagesA collection of experimental poems from her early career.
memoryinstabilities of language
Starred Wire
2005 poetry 70 pagesA National Poetry Series-selected collection noted for its finely wrought images and lyricism.
visual imageryurban landscapes
Shoulder Season
2010 poetry 82 pagesA collection shortlisted for the William Carlos Williams Award, connecting seasonal sensibility with everyday observation.
seasonalityobservation
Marvelous Things Overheard
2013 poetry 112 pagesA critically acclaimed collection focusing on the failings of language and urban experience.
languageurban lifehumor and mystery
Distant Mandate
2017 poetry 112 pagesA collection examining ruptures between the individual and the public in contemporary society.
publicnessthe individual
Venice
2022 poetry 144 pagesA 2022 collection where urban scenes and personal memory intersect.
citymemorylandscape
Foxglovewise
2025 poetry 112 pagesA 2025 collection addressing themes of presence and absence.
presenceabsencenature and the city
Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets
criticism 184 pagesA critical study of Florida and its poets, analyzing the region's literary and cultural specificities.
regional studiespoetics
Bibliography
- Immediate Orgy & Audit (1996)
- Matinées (1999)
- Starred Wire (2005)
- The Children's Museum (2007, chapbook)
- Shoulder Season (2010)
- Marvelous Things Overheard (2013)
- Distant Mandate (2017)
- Venice (2022)
- Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets (Oxford University Press)
- Foxglovewise (2025)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- urban, observational poetic styleblend of humor and mysteryimage-focused, finely wrought diction
- Recurring Motifs
- urban lifefailure of languagememory and fragmentsdetails of the everyday
Legacy
Ange Mlinko is a prominent contemporary American poet and critic, praised for her finely detailed imagery and observational poems. A Guggenheim Fellow and influential teacher/editor, she has had a notable impact on contemporary American poetry.
Quotes
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The New Yorker praised her "unique sense of humor and mystery."
Source: The New Yorker (review) (2005) -
John Ashbery said of Starred Wire: "A fine-grained light like that of a nineteenth-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems."
Source: John Ashbery (quote) (2005)
Trivia
- Her parents immigrated to the U.S. after World War II from Hungary and Belarus, passing through Brazil.
- Portuguese was used within the household; family members spoke their hearth languages among themselves.
- She served as poetry editor of The Nation from 2013 to 2016.