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'''Matthew Minicucci''' (born 1981) is an American writer and [[poet]]. His first full-length collection, ''Translation'', won the 2015 [[Wick Poetry Prize]], and his second collection, ''Small Gods'', won the 2019 Stafford/Hall [[Oregon Book Award]] in Poetry.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Otwell |first=Rachel |title=Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0 |publisher=NPR Illinois |location=Suggs Studio |date=February 24, 2016 |work= |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Suzette |date=April 23, 2019 |title=Hooray for the 2019 Oregon Book Award Winners! |url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/04/23/26367724/hooray-for-the-2019-oregon-book-award-winners |magazine=Portland Mercury |location=Portland, OR |publisher= |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref> Having received numerous fellowships and residencies, including with the National Park Service, the C. Hamilton Bailey Oregon Literary Fellowship, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the [[Bread Loaf Writers' Conference]], and the [[James Merrill]] House, Minicucci was named the 2019 [[Dartmouth College]] Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=On Being Named the 2019 Dartmouth Poet in Residence |url=https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2019matthewminicucci/ |work=The Frost Place |location=Franconia, NH |date=2019-05-10 |access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref>
'''Matthew Minicucci''' (born 1981) is an American writer and poet. His first full-length collection, ''Translation'', won the 2015 [[Wick Poetry Prize]], and his second collection, ''Small Gods'', won the 2019 Stafford/Hall [[Oregon Book Award]] in Poetry.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Otwell |first=Rachel |title=Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0 |publisher=NPR Illinois |location=Suggs Studio |date=February 24, 2016 |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Suzette |date=April 23, 2019 |title=Hooray for the 2019 Oregon Book Award Winners! |url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/04/23/26367724/hooray-for-the-2019-oregon-book-award-winners |magazine=Portland Mercury |location=Portland, OR |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref> Having received numerous fellowships and residencies, including with the National Park Service, the C. Hamilton Bailey Oregon Literary Fellowship, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the [[Bread Loaf Writers' Conference]], and the [[James Merrill]] House, Minicucci was named the 2019 [[Dartmouth College]] Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=On Being Named the 2019 Dartmouth Poet in Residence |url=https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2019matthewminicucci/ |work=The Frost Place |location=Franconia, NH |date=May 10, 2019 |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
After completing a degree in Classical Literature and Languages, Minicucci pursued his MFA at the University of Illinois; he has trained with [[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]], [[Tyehimba Jess]], and [[A. Van Jordan]]. His chapbook, ''Reliquary'', marshalls the [[Stations of the Cross]] to explore themes later positively received in the full-length ''Translation''. ''[[The Kenyon Review]]'' remarked the book's ″attention to craft as well as its thematic concerns and narrative devices [invoke] ancient history and myth to make sense of the poet’s own personal history of loss.″<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Brunton |first=Jamie |date=February 3, 2017 |title=On Matthew Minicucci's Translation |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/reviews/translation-by-matthew-minicucci-738439/ |magazine=The Kenyon Review |location=Gambler, OH |publisher=Kenyon College |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref>
After completing a degree in Classical Literature and Languages, Minicucci pursued his MFA at the University of Illinois; he has trained with [[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]], [[Tyehimba Jess]], and [[A. Van Jordan]]. His chapbook, ''Reliquary'', marshalls the [[Stations of the Cross]] to explore themes later positively received in the full-length ''Translation''. ''[[The Kenyon Review]]'' remarked the book's ″attention to craft as well as its thematic concerns and narrative devices [invoke] ancient history and myth to make sense of the poet's own personal history of loss.″<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Brunton |first=Jamie |date=February 3, 2017 |title=On Matthew Minicucci's Translation |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/reviews/translation-by-matthew-minicucci-738439/ |magazine=The Kenyon Review |location=Gambler, OH |publisher=Kenyon College |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}</ref>


In his citation for the Oregon Book Award, judge and 2019 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Pulitzer-prize]] winner [[Forrest Gander]] remarked<blockquote>The lexicon is inordinately rich, somehow both precise and lush. And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal tears. Disinterested in irony, softly-toned, Minicucci opens depths inside us that we can sense long after we’ve closed his book.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Book Award Finalists |magazine=2019 Oregon Book Award Ceremony Program |location=Portland, OR |publisher=Literary Arts |date=April 22, 2019}}</ref></blockquote>
In his citation for the Oregon Book Award, judge and 2019 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Pulitzer-prize]] winner [[Forrest Gander]] remarked<blockquote>The lexicon is inordinately rich, somehow both precise and lush. And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal tears. Disinterested in irony, softly-toned, Minicucci opens depths inside us that we can sense long after we’ve closed his book.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Book Award Finalists |magazine=2019 Oregon Book Award Ceremony Program |location=Portland, OR |publisher=Literary Arts |date=April 22, 2019}}</ref></blockquote>


Minicucci's poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in ''[[Alaska Quarterly Review]]'', ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', ''[[The Cincinnati Review]]'', ''[[Copper Nickel]]'', the ''[[Gettysburg Review]]'', ''[[Hayden’s Ferry Review]]'', ''[[The Massachusetts Review]]'', ''Oregon Humanities'' magazine, ''[[Passages North]]'', ''[[Pleiades]]'', ''[[Poetry Northwest]]'', ''[[Salamander]]'', ''[[Southern Indiana Review]]'', ''[[The Southern Review]]'', ''Tupelo Quarterly'', the ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]'', and ''[[West Branch (journal)|West Branch]]'', among others. It has also been featured on ''Verse Daily'' and ''Poetry Daily''.
Minicucci's poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in ''[[Alaska Quarterly Review]]'', ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', ''[[The Cincinnati Review]]'', ''[[Copper Nickel]]'', the ''[[Gettysburg Review]]'', ''[[Hayden's Ferry Review]]'', ''[[The Massachusetts Review]]'', ''Oregon Humanities'' magazine, ''[[Passages North]]'', ''[[Pleiades]]'', ''[[Poetry Northwest]]'', ''[[Salamander]]'', ''[[Southern Indiana Review]]'', ''[[The Southern Review]]'', ''Tupelo Quarterly'', the ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]'', and ''[[West Branch (journal)|West Branch]]'', among others. It has also been featured on ''Verse Daily'' and ''Poetry Daily''.


He serves as a member of the advisory board for ''[[Ninth Letter]]'', and as senior poetry editor to ''Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads''. Minicucci has taught writing at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[Millikin University]], [[Pacific University]], and currently at the [[University of Portland]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=UP professor Matthew Minicucci wins 2019 Oregon Book Award |url=https://www.up.edu/news/2019/05/minicucci-wins-oregon-book-award.html |work=University of Portland |location=Portland, OR |date=2019-05-01 |access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref>
He serves as a member of the advisory board for ''[[Ninth Letter]]'', and as senior poetry editor to ''Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads''. Minicucci has taught writing at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[Millikin University]], [[Pacific University]], and currently at the [[University of Portland]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=UP professor Matthew Minicucci wins 2019 Oregon Book Award |url=https://www.up.edu/news/2019/05/minicucci-wins-oregon-book-award.html |publisher=University of Portland |location=Portland, OR |date=May 1, 2019 |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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* {{cite magazine |date=February 9, 2018 |title=Intentions, Inquiries, and Impossible Tasks: review of ''Marvels of the Invisible'' by Jenny Molberg |url=https://therumpus.net/2018/02/marvels-of-the-invisible-by-jenny-molberg/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
* {{cite magazine |date=February 9, 2018 |title=Intentions, Inquiries, and Impossible Tasks: review of ''Marvels of the Invisible'' by Jenny Molberg |url=https://therumpus.net/2018/02/marvels-of-the-invisible-by-jenny-molberg/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
* {{cite magazine |date=March 17, 2017 |title=Music Always About to Begin: review of ''Not on the Last Day, But the Very Last'' by Justin Boening |url=https://therumpus.net/2017/03/not-on-the-last-day-but-on-the-very-last-by-justin-boening/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
* {{cite magazine |date=March 17, 2017 |title=Music Always About to Begin: review of ''Not on the Last Day, But the Very Last'' by Justin Boening |url=https://therumpus.net/2017/03/not-on-the-last-day-but-on-the-very-last-by-justin-boening/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
* {{cite magazine |date=March 10, 2014 |title=Don’t Look Back You Said: review of ''The Eyes the Window'' by Marci Rae Johnson |url=https://philareview.com/2014/03/10/dont-look-back-you-said/ |magazine=Philadelphia Review of Books |location=Philadelphia, PA |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
* {{cite magazine |date=March 10, 2014 |title=Don't Look Back You Said: review of ''The Eyes the Window'' by Marci Rae Johnson |url=https://philareview.com/2014/03/10/dont-look-back-you-said/ |magazine=Philadelphia Review of Books |location=Philadelphia, PA |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}


==External links==
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| audio1 = [http://www.nereview.com/files/2017/01/Beta-Theta-and-Nu-by-Matthew-Minicucci.mp3?_=1/ ″Beta,″ ″Nu,″ and ″Theta″] read by the author.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=March 29, 2017 |title=Mid Week Break: Matthew Minicucci Reads at Bread Loaf |trans-title= |medium= |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2014-fall/selections/matthew-minicucci-763879/ |format=audio recording |time= |location=Bread Loaf Writers' Conference |work=New England Review }}</ref>
| audio2 = [https://soundcloud.com/the-kenyon-review/what-were-talking-about-here-book-twenty-five-by-matthew-minicucci/ ″What we're talking about here″ and ″Book Twenty-Five″] read by the author.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=December 2, 2014 |title=Two Poems by Matthew Minicucci |trans-title= |medium= |language=English |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2014-fall/selections/matthew-minicucci-763879/ |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |format=audio recording |time= |location=SoundCloud |publisher=Kenyon Review Online |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref= }}</ref>
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| audio3 = [http://nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0/ Shelterbelt reading and interview] with the author at the University of Illinois.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=February 24, 2016 |title=Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes |trans-title= |medium= |language=English |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0 |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |format=audio recording |time= |location= |publisher=NPR Illinois |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref= }}</ref>
| audio3 = [http://nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0/ Shelterbelt reading and interview] with the author at the University of Illinois.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=February 24, 2016 |title=Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes |trans-title= |medium= |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0 |format=audio recording |time= |publisher=NPR Illinois }}</ref>
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Revision as of 09:35, 28 May 2019

Matthew Minicucci
Minicucci at the 2017 Utah Humanities Book Festival.
Minicucci at the 2017 Utah Humanities Book Festival.
Born (1981-01-28) January 28, 1981 (age 43)
Lawrence, Massachusetts, US
OccupationPoet, teacher
LanguageEnglish, Greek (Attic and Homeric), Latin
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Literary movementNew Formalism
Notable awardsOregon Book Award, Wick Poetry Prize
Website
matthewminicucci.com

Matthew Minicucci (born 1981) is an American writer and poet. His first full-length collection, Translation, won the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize, and his second collection, Small Gods, won the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry.[1][2] Having received numerous fellowships and residencies, including with the National Park Service, the C. Hamilton Bailey Oregon Literary Fellowship, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the James Merrill House, Minicucci was named the 2019 Dartmouth College Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place.[3]

Career

After completing a degree in Classical Literature and Languages, Minicucci pursued his MFA at the University of Illinois; he has trained with Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Tyehimba Jess, and A. Van Jordan. His chapbook, Reliquary, marshalls the Stations of the Cross to explore themes later positively received in the full-length Translation. The Kenyon Review remarked the book's ″attention to craft as well as its thematic concerns and narrative devices [invoke] ancient history and myth to make sense of the poet's own personal history of loss.″[4]

In his citation for the Oregon Book Award, judge and 2019 Pulitzer-prize winner Forrest Gander remarked

The lexicon is inordinately rich, somehow both precise and lush. And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal tears. Disinterested in irony, softly-toned, Minicucci opens depths inside us that we can sense long after we’ve closed his book.[5]

Minicucci's poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, the Gettysburg Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Oregon Humanities magazine, Passages North, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Southern Indiana Review, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch, among others. It has also been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

He serves as a member of the advisory board for Ninth Letter, and as senior poetry editor to Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads. Minicucci has taught writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Millikin University, Pacific University, and currently at the University of Portland.[6]

Bibliography

Books

  • Small Gods: Poems. A Green Rose Book, New Issues Poetry & Prose / University of Chicago Press. 2017. ISBN 9781936970476. {{cite book}}: External link in |author-link= (help)
  • Translation: Poems. Kent State University Press. 2015. ISBN 9781606352625. {{cite book}}: External link in |author-link= (help)
  • Reliquary: Poems. Accents. 2013. ISBN 9781936628131. {{cite book}}: External link in |author-link= (help)

Anthologies

Reviews


External audio
audio icon ″Beta,″ ″Nu,″ and ″Theta″ read by the author.[7]
audio icon ″What we're talking about here″ and ″Book Twenty-Five″ read by the author.[8]
audio icon Shelterbelt reading and interview with the author at the University of Illinois.[9]

References

  1. ^ Otwell, Rachel (February 24, 2016). "Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes" (Interview). Suggs Studio: NPR Illinois. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Smith, Suzette (April 23, 2019). "Hooray for the 2019 Oregon Book Award Winners!". Portland Mercury. Portland, OR. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  3. ^ "On Being Named the 2019 Dartmouth Poet in Residence". The Frost Place. Franconia, NH. May 10, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  4. ^ Brunton, Jamie (February 3, 2017). "On Matthew Minicucci's Translation". The Kenyon Review. Gambler, OH: Kenyon College. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  5. ^ "Book Award Finalists". 2019 Oregon Book Award Ceremony Program. Portland, OR: Literary Arts. April 22, 2019.
  6. ^ "UP professor Matthew Minicucci wins 2019 Oregon Book Award". Portland, OR: University of Portland. May 1, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  7. ^ Matthew Minicucci (March 29, 2017). Mid Week Break: Matthew Minicucci Reads at Bread Loaf (audio recording). New England Review. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
  8. ^ Matthew Minicucci (December 2, 2014). Two Poems by Matthew Minicucci (audio recording). SoundCloud: Kenyon Review Online.
  9. ^ Matthew Minicucci (February 24, 2016). Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes (audio recording). NPR Illinois.
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