Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

• Satin Cash: Poems (forthcoming, Persea Books, 2008).
• All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.) (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press, 2008).
• Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
• Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems, Columbia University Press, Fall 1999.
• Glass Town, poems, Red Hen Press, Fall 1999.
• Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
• Cellar, Alderman Press, 1983.

Poems published in

The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, The Paris Review, The Southwest Review and elsewhere.

Anthologized Work in

• "Ecstatic Poetry" in Thinking of Reading, ed. Feldman and Stilling (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press, 2008).
• The Poet's Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Story Line Press, 2003.
• Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia, University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Articles

• "Lines On-Line: Internet Journals Give Poetry a Global Habitation," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Winter 2003.
• Essay Review of Sparrow by Carol Muske, Shenandoah, Fall 2003.
• Essay Review of Waterborne by Linda Gregerson and What Do We Know by Mary Oliver, Shenandoah, Volume 52, Number 4, Winter 2002.
• "Dancing in the Dark: A Review of Nancy Huston's Slow Emergencies" Washington Post Book World, 18 March 2001.
• "To Sleep, Perchance: the Poetry of Insomnia," The Chronicle Review of The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 October 2000; purchased for reprint in The Australian (circulation 350,000, Sydney, Australia), November 2000.
• Review. "Wild Decembers, by Edna O'Brien," Virginia Quarterly Review.
• Review. "Michael Collier's The Ledge and William Matthews' After All: Last Poems," in Gadfly, July/August 2000.

Honors

• Mead Honored Faculty, 2007-2008
• Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review, 2001
• Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, 2000
• 1999 David A Harrison III Award for Undergraduate Advising, University of Virginia
• Inclusion in Best Essay Reviews of 1998, in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1999
• Finalist, National Poetry Series, 1997
• Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artists Award, 1996
• Academy of American Poets Prize - University of Virginia, 1978
• Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry - University of Virginia, 1980