Walt Whitman Award
1 appearances
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Edition 35 (2009) Winner
J. Michael Martinez
ジェイ・マイケル・マルティネス
J. Michael Martinez
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Greeley, Colorado
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- Poet
- Active Years
- 2000-
- Influenced By
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Cornelius Eady
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Northern Colorado | — | — | — | — | United States |
| George Mason University | Graduate School | Creative Writing (MFA) | MFA | — | United States |
University of Northern Colorado
Country:
United States
George Mason University
Graduate School
/ Creative Writing (MFA)
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
MFA in creative writing (year unknown)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize | — | — | Five Fingers Review | 受賞 |
| 2009 | Walt Whitman Award | Heredities | — | Academy of American Poets | 受賞 |
| 2017 | National Poetry Series (winner/selection) | Museum of the Americas | — | National Poetry Series / Penguin Books | 選出 |
Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize
2006
Organization:
Five Fingers Review
Result:
受賞
Walt Whitman Award
2009
Work:
Heredities
Organization:
Academy of American Poets
Result:
受賞
National Poetry Series (winner/selection)
2017
Work:
Museum of the Americas
Organization:
National Poetry Series / Penguin Books
Result:
選出
Awards & Nominations
National Poetry Series
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
Heredities
2010 PoetryA collection that explores cultural identity, colonialism, corporeality, and fragmented histories. Through meta-translations and reinterpretations of historical accounts, it evokes a dismembered continental body that rises and sings.
cultural identitycolonization and conquestbody and memorylanguage and translation
In the Garden of the Bridehouse
2014 PoetryA set of poems weaving mythic imagery with personal memory, examining the intersections of private spaces and public history through motifs of gardens and houses.
mythfamily historyprivate space
Museum of the Americas
2018 PoetryA collection focused on the histories of the Americas, memory as museum exhibits, and discourse as cultural relics, intersecting historical documents with poetic imagination.
museumification of historymemory and relicscultural dialogue
Bibliography
- Heredities
- In the Garden of the Bridehouse
- Museum of the Americas
- Junta: Avant-Garde Latino/a Writing (anthology/participation)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimental, fragmentary formslayered juxtaposition of archival history and personal memorymeta-translation techniques
- Recurring Motifs
- body and dismembermentaccounts of conquestmuseum/exhibitlimits of language
Legacy
Recognized as a poet who re-reads cultural identity and history in contemporary poetry. His Walt Whitman Award win and other recognitions have marked him as an important voice in American Latino poetry.
Quotes
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Heredities breaks away from four decades of inquiry into cultural identity. Martinez's exhilarating descent into the unspoken—lit by metaphysical investigations, physiological charts, and meta-translations of Hernán Cortés's accounts of his conquests—gives voice to a dismembered continental body buried long ago. This body, though flayed and fractured, rises and sings.
Source: Juan Felipe Herrera (comment as selector for the Walt Whitman Award) (2009)
Trivia
- Co-founder and co-editor of Breach Press.
- Was on a panel at the 2009 AWP conference with Gabriel Gomez.
- Received the Walt Whitman Award in 2009.