Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

• Satin Cash: Poems, Persea Books, 2008.
• All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.), 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, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, The Paris Review, The Southwest Review and elsewhere.

Anthologized Work in

• 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.
• Best American Poetry 2008, Scribner, 2008.

Essays, Chapters, Reviews

• “Ecstatic Poetry” for What Should I Read Next?  70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More, ed. Jessica Feldman, forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press, 2008
• "Manifest Identities," in Shenandoah, Fall 2008.
• “Ecstatic Poetry” and “Nursery Rhymes” in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (forthcoming)Rev. of Charles Wright’s Scar Tissue in Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2007
• Review of Stephen Cushman’s Heart Island in Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2007
• Review of Ted Kooser’s Delights and Shadows in Shenandoah 55/2, Fall 2005“The Lexicon of Ruin: A Review of Julie Suk’s The Dark Takes Aim” in American Book Review, July/ August 2004 (Vol. 25, Issue 5)
• Review of Torn Sky by Debra Nystrom, Meridian, 2004.
• "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

• Library of Virgina Award for Poetry, 2009
• 2009 All-University Teaching Award
  
• 2009/2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
  
• Best American Poetry, 2008
• 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