American poet
Donna Masini attends a rally at Washington Square, New York, in December 2014 Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.[1]
Life She graduated from Hunter College and New York University . Her work frequently deals with urban life and the working-class. Her first book of poems, That Kind of Danger , received the Barnard Women Poets Prize , chosen by Mona Van Duyn . In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts . Her poem, "Anxieties," recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2015.
Masini's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, Poetry, American Poetry Review Ploughshares TriQuarterly Paris Review Ms. , KGB Bar Book of Poems , Georgia Review Parnassus Boulevard Open City
Masini is a professor of English and teaches poetry as a part of CUNY Hunter College MFA Program in Creative Writing.[2] She has also taught at Columbia University and New York University
She is currently working on The Good Enough Mother , a new novel of obsession, psychoanalysis and class.[3] She lives in New York City .[4]
Awards Barnard Women Poet’s Prize, That Kind of Danger National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts Grant Pushcart Prize
Bibliography
Poetry
Novels About Yvonne New York: WW Norton and Co. 1998.
Anthologies David Lehman ed., Sherman Alexie, guest ed. Best American Poetry 2015 Simon and Schuster, 2015 Jason Koo, ed. Brooklyn Poets Brooklyn Arts, 2017 Major Jackson, ed. Renga for Obama Harvard University, 2017 Donna Masini: Turning to Fiction, Video interview with Param Vir, 2012 Jerry Williams, ed. It's Not You It's Me: Poems of Breakup and Divorce Overlook Press, 2012 Michael Meyer, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature Archived 2016-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Macmillan, 2011 Billy Collins, ed. (2005). "Slowly". 180 More: Extraordinary Poems For Every Day . Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2 Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer Girls: Poems by Women From the Baby Boom Generation . University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2
References ^ International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.). Routledge. 2001. ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5 ^ "Creative Writing MFA Donna Masini". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2009-07-24 . ^ "ItalianAmericanWriters.com: Contemporary Italian American Writing - Donna Masini". www.italianamericanwriters.com . Retrieved Jan 7, 2020 . ^ "Donna Masini". Poets & Writers . 27 September 1988. Retrieved Jan 7, 2020 .
External links Donna Masini Official Homepage Donna Masini, "A Gate" Academy of American Poets Poetry Foundation, A Change of World, Episode 4, podcast Brooklyn Poets: Poet of the Week (Interview) Boston Review, Stephen Burt Ten Poems and One Contributor's Note You Should Strongly Consider Reading Donna Masini "Anxieties," Academy of American Poets "Donna Masini" Italian American Writers "Donna_Masini and June Jordan", Poetry Branching Out[permanent dead link ] "Donna Masini listens to Robert Creeley reading James Wright's poetry at the 1996 festival in Martin's Ferry, Ohio."
