Joshua Poteat is an American poet

Background

Joshua Poteat got his Bachelor of Arts in English from the

University of North Carolina Wilmington The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW or UNC Wilmington) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls 17,499 undergraduate and graduate students eac ...

in 1993. received his Master of Fine Arts in writing at

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the Virgini ...

in May 1997. Poteat has published two books of poems, ''Ornithologies'' (Anhinga Poetry Prize, 2006) and ''Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World'' (University of Georgia Press/''Virginia Quarterly Review'', 2009), as well as a chapbook, ''Meditations'' (Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Award, 2004). He has won prizes and fellowships from bodies including ''

The Literary Review ''The Literary Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1957. The biannual magazine is published internationally by Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. In addition to the publication of short stories, poems, an ...

'', ''Bellingham Review'', The

Millay Colony Millay Arts, formerly the Millay Colony for the Arts, is an arts community offering residency-retreats and workshops in Austerlitz, New York, and free arts programs in local public schools. Housed on the former property of feminist/activist poet ...

, Virginia Commission for the Arts and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He was named the 2011-2012 Donaldson Writer in Residence at The

College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...

. Poteat is also an assemblage artist of sorts, making light boxes and ink transfers out of found materials, and collaborating with the designer Roberto Ventura on art installations, one of which won Best in Show for InLight 2009. Poteat lives in Richmond, VA, with the writer Allison Titus. He is an editor at the Martin Agency.

Reviews

Melanie Drane, at ''ForeWord Magazine'', stated in May 2006: "Joshua Poteat's stunning début has received the

Anhinga The anhinga (; ''Anhinga anhinga''), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word ''anhinga'' comes from ''a'ñinga'' in the Brazilian Tupi language and means ...

Prize for Poetry, selected by Campbell McGrath. Poteat's poems are suffused with the cognizance that 'nothing in this world is ours.' Each image teeters on an unsustainable, exquisite edge."

Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary ...

, a judge for the 2004 Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Award, stated that: "It is a lyricism that reminds me of James Wright, and this I mean certainly as praise, when he employed, as I called it, an intensified vernacular—throwing me off my stride, gathering me to him by the detail of some earnest and often terrible beauty, in the easy language of our country with its sweet, oiled syntax…" Darren Morris a book reviewer for ''Style Weekly'' said in 2006 that: "Be careful when reading ''Ornithologies'' by Joshua Poteat. His poems are so mysterious, eloquent and downright powerful, they may ruin you with beauty. Good poetry calls attention to what would otherwise be overlooked, but the best poetry changes us."

Publications

* ''Meditations'' (2004) * ''Ornithologies'' (2006) * ''Illustrating the machine that makes the world: From J.G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science'', University of Georgia Press, ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion"'' ...

'' Contemporary Poets Series, (2009)

References

External links

Official site
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