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Joshua Weiner

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Joshua Weiner

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1963 (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.)
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Washington, D.C. → Provincetown

Career

Occupations
poet, essayist, translator, professor
Active Years
1988-2024
Affiliations
University of Maryland, College Park, Fine Arts Work Center, Tikkun magazine

Education

Northwestern University
English
Country: United States
University of California, Berkeley
English and American Literature
Degree: PhD
Year of Graduation: 1998
Country: United States
Dissertation: Mina Loy among the moderns

Awards

Witter Bynner Fellowship
2000
Result: winner
Whiting Award
2002
Result: winner
Rome Prize in Literature
2003
Organization: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Result: winner
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
2012
Result: winner
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2014
Organization: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The World's Room

2001 Poetry

Poetry collection

From the Book of Giants

2010 Poetry

Poetry collection

The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish

2013 Poetry

Poetry collection

Flight & Metamorphosis

2021 Translated Poetry

English and German translation of Nelly Sachs' poetry

Bibliography

  • The World's Room
  • From the Book of Giants
  • The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish
  • Flight & Metamorphosis
  • At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (editor)