April 2012
P O E T RY
100 YEARS Alma Mater
five million five hundred sixty-seven thousand eight hundred seventy-nine dollars & forty-four cents - Poetry, April 2012
POETRY April 2012
FOUNDED IN 2012 BY AMF NO. 4
POEMS
AMF Artist #1 BA: University of Iowa MA: San Francisco State University.
$31,060 $25,086
Century’s Road, Orioles, Plowie: A Story From the Prairie, Robert Bly in This World, She Walks in Beauty, The Poets Guide to the Birds, To Sing Along the Way, What Have You Lost?, Voices in Poetry: John Keats, Century’s Road, Voices in Poetry: Maya Angelou, Agni Online, Antioch Review, Bloomsbury Review, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Threepenny Review, Water~Stone Review McKnight Fellowship Loft Award A fellowship from the NEA A fellowship from the Bush Foundation A fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board A fellowship from the Jerome Foundation Poetry editor for Water-Stone Review Associate Professor, Hamline University
$25,000 $25,000 $10,000 $10,000 $8,000 No Summer Classes + $57,000 $191,146
Vision Test $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Survivor’s Guilt $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
In Extremis $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $420
AMF Artist #2 Diploma: Roxbury Latin Boy’s School BA: University of Chicago MD: Yale School of Divinity
$89,200 $118,848 + $94,888 $302,936 Christian Century, Literary Imagination, Poetry, the Yale Rewview, Zoland Poetry Annual
AMF Work $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Wisconsin $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $580
AMF Artist #3 MA: University of Maryland Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Journal, Meridian, Subtropics, AGNI
$89,732
Bad Sheep $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $350
AMF Artist #4 Wesleyan MFA: Iowa Writer’s Workshop
$173,616 $30,456
The Darker Fall, Want, New Republic, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry Grub Street Book Prize A fellowship from the NEA Stegner Fellow Jones Lecturer
$2,000 $5,000 $25,000 $104,000 + $500,000 $840,072
The Wooden Overcoat $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $280 $300
AMF Artist #5 BA: Arizona State University MFA: Iowa Writer’s Workshop
$42,080 $30,456
Slow Lightning, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry, Jubilat, Witness, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Nation, Quarterly West Yale Series of Younger Poets winner Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship The “Discovery”/the Nation award Residency at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo
Publication $33,250 $500 + Time $106,286
In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $340
AMF Artist #6 BA: York University
$25,753.44
Technicolored, Pure Product, Poetry, The Southern Review, Poetry London, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English Frederick Bock Prize
+ $500 $26,253.44
A Magnetic Personality $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
John Hancock’s John Hancock $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $600
AMF Artist #7 MA: Colorado State University MFA: University of California, Irvine
$36,640 $90,000
Dedications and Other Darkhorses, Lost in the Bone Wheel Factory, Copacetic, I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, Toys in a Field, Dien Cai Dau, Magic City, Neon Vernacular, Thieves of Paradise, Pleasure Dome, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Taboo, Gilgamesh, Warhorses, The Chameleon Couch $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award International Recognition William Faulkner Prize $500 The Levinson Prize Support The Hanes Poetry Prize $100,000 The Ruth Lily Poetry Prize Time A fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center` $3,000 A fellowship from the Louisiana Arts Council $25,000 A fellowship from the NEA National Honor Bronze Star Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets University of New Orleans Indiana University
Power/Influence $50,000 + $71,098 $349,598
Snow Tiger $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Omens $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Islands For Derek Walcott
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $980
AMF Artist #8 Online Tutorials SCAD
Free $122,040
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Gulf Coast, VQR, American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Witness,
The Arch $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $300
AMF Artist #9 BA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst MFA: University of California, Irvine PHD: University of Missouri
$43,704 $106,969 $88,224
Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives; Field, Nostos, Clever and Poor, The Seneca Review, ZYZZYVA, Compost, The Monongahela Book of Hours, Poetry, The Hudson Review, 32 Poems, 5 Fingers Review, The Kenyon Review, the New England Review, Missouri Review, Worchester Review, Fourth Genre Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship John N. Wall Fellowship in Poetry The “Discovery”/the Nation award
$52,000 $100,000 $2,700 + $500 $394,097
Nulla Dies Sine Linea On my birthday
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $100 $300
AMF Artist #10 MA: Columbia University Kellet Fellowship, Cambridge PHD: Columbia University
$206,176 $34,056 $56,334
When a Woman Loves a Man, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man, The Evening Sun, The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry, Valentine Place, Operation Memory, An Alternative to Speech, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, The Big Question, The Line Forms Here, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, 65 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems, James Merrill, Essays in Criticism, Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery, The Oxford Book of American Poetry A fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation A fellowship from the Ingram Merrill Foundation A fellowship from the NEA Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award.
$43,200 $25,000 $25,000 + $92,826 $482,592
The Breeder’s Cup I. TO THE FATES
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 II. OLYMPIA
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $320
AMF Artist #11 MA: University of Houston MFA: University of Houston
$22,800 $35,304
Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Blood Ties and Brown Liquor A fellowship from Cave Canem A fellowship from the Bush Foundation A fellowship from the MacDowell Colony Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference A fellowship the Jerome Foundation Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry
Time/Community $10,000 Time $2,725 $8,000 + $52,000 $130,829
Bemidjii Blues $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $150 $300
AMF Artist #12 One Year at Santa Clara University MA: Connecticut College MFA: University of Arizona
$39,048 $170,370 $39,348
The Clasp and Other Poems, The Folded Heart, The Neighbor, The Ledge, Dark Wild Realm, The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, a translation of Medea, Make Us Wave Back $1,666 A fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation $50,000 A fellowship from the NEA (x 2) $500 The “Discovery”/the Nation award Recognition (?) Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry Time and Space A Writing Fellow with the Fine Arts Work Center Artistic Exile A Thomas Watson Traveling Fellowship Faculty at the University of Maryland Director of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
$60,000 + Influence $360,932
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $60 $300
AMF Artist #13 BA: UCLA MFA: University of Montana PHD: Florida State University
$31,902 $47,025 $96,663
Tragic Girl, Fence, Warsaw Bikini, Lana Turner, Used White Wife, The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, the Colorado Review, the Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Volt, the New Orleans Review, Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University
+ $68,500 $244,088
You Can’t Build a Child $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $260 $300
AMF Artist #14 PHD: University of Chicago
$58,440
The 580 Strophes, The Cincinnati Review, FlashPoint, Forklift Ohio, LIT, Now Culture, PANK, Shampoo, AGNI Online, 6X6, WEB CONJUNCTIONS, THE GETTING RID OF THE THAT WHICH CANNOT BE DONE WITHOUT, Typomag, Shampoo, Copper Nickle, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say,
Once upon a Time $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $640
AMF Artist #15 Northeast Ohio Medical University
$228,904
0ยบ 0ยบ, Heaven and Earth, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Granta, the New York Review of Books, the Best American Poetry, Partitions, the Wall Street Journal, The Abundance Diagnostic Radiology resident in Cleveland
+ $300,000 $528,904
Horse Apocalypse $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 • $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 • $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 • $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 •
$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $ 350
AMF Artist #16 MFA: Brown University PHD: University California, Berkley
$79,856 $196,965
In Medias Res: a primer of experience in approximate alphabetical order, Greensboro Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia Poetry Review, Ardor, God’s One Hundred Promises MacDowell Colony Millary Colony NEA grant Norma Faber First Book Award Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry Department Chair, Vanguard Univeristy
Time Time $25,000 $500 $2,000 + $70,000 $374,321
Song-Riddle: Asian Box Turtle $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Song of the Oyamel $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
$10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $350
AMF Artist #17 BA: Mount Holyoke MFA: Bennington Writing Seminars
$214,384 $20,825
The Infant Scholar, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, Columbia, Volt, The Abattoir, Black Lemons $3,000/Publication The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Time A fellowship from the MacDowell Colony + $25,000 Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award $263,209
Little Ice Age $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10
Still Life $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $270 $300
AMF Artist #18 Absolutely None
Relatively Little
Nevertheless, Poetry, Rattapallax, Smartish Pace, Measure, What’s That Supposed to Mean Mark Fischer Poetry Prize
$200
! Dear Writers, I’m compiling the first in what I hope is a series of publications I’m calling ARTISTS AMONG ARTISTS. The theme for issue 1 is “Faggot Dinosaur.” I hope to hear from you! Thank you and best wishes. —Ali, editor, Artists among Artists $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $130 $300
AMF Artist #19 Absolutely None
Relatively Little
White Sheets, Against Gravity, Hemlock, Unfinished Ode to Mud, Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, The TLS; Geneses, Genealogies, Genre and Genius; Hyperdream, This Incredible Need to Believe, Field, Reveries of the Wild Woman, The Day I Wasn’t There, Dream I Tell You, Manhattan, Literary Imagination, Notre Dame Review, The Southern Review Canada Council for the Arts Writing Grant
$25,000
Reunion: J-School, Class of 19-$10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $330
AMF Artist #20 MFA: University of Arkansas
$25,651
Mistaken for Song, Verse Daily, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard, Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize Walton Fellowship in Creative Writing State of Nevada Individual Artist Fellowship Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Artist Grant Has Taught at the University of Nevada, Reno
Publication/$1,000 $600,000 $5,000 $1,000 + $74,226 $706,877
Numbered $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $130 $300
AMF Artist #21 BA: Harvard MA: San Francisco State University
$38,415 $36,000
Letters to Anna, 1846-54, Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, Knocking on the Earth, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse, The American Poetry Review, Orion, Harvard, The Sun A fellowship from the Blue Mountain Center A fellowship from the MacDowell Colony A fellowshipt from the Headlands Center for the Arts A grant from the Marin Arts Council
Time Time Time/Space + $10,000 $84,415
Hook $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 $10 + $10 $150 $300
AMF
$10 + $10 FREE