The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Wendy Mnookin, author of four poetry collections, The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, What He Took and To Get Here, all from BOA Editions, and Guenever Speaks, a collection of persona poems. She has recent poems in the Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner and Salamander.Mnookin has won a Book Award from the New England Poetry Club and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She graduated from Radcliffe College and the Vermont College MFA Program. She teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a non-profit writing center in Boston.
One paragraph from her entry:
I recently went back to David Wojahn's Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry. I find I read more carefully the secondVisit Wendy Mnookin's website and check out Garrison Keillor reading one of her poems.time through, or maybe it's that different aspects of the discussion interest me, but in any case it feels like a new read. This time around I was especially fascinated with the essay on W.D. Snodgrass--I hadn't remembered that at the beginning of his career Snodgrass wrote under as the pseudonym "Gardons" as well as under his own name. Which sent me to Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems, where I could compare the two bodies of work. I recommend reading the selection from Heart's Needle, written as Snodgrass, and the selection from Remains, where Gardons speaks--and speaks more freely.[read on]
Writers Read: Wendy Mnookin.
--Marshal Zeringue
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