Mark Wunderlich

Mark Wunderlich (born 1968), is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, where he studied English and German literature. After moving to New York City he attended Columbia University, where he received an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree.

Wunderlich has published three collections of poetry, most recently The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press, 2014). He worked on his first book, The Anchorage, (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999) as his MFA thesis at Columbia University and finished it while living in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[1] There he was friends with the poet Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006).[2] A second book of poems, Voluntary Servitude, was published by Graywolf Press in 2004.

Life

Wunderlich has published individual poems, essays, reviews and interviews in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Slate, Fence,[3] Boston Review, Chicago Review, and AGNI.[4] Wunderlich has taught at Stanford, San Francisco State University, Ohio University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. Since 2004, he has been a member of the literature faculty at Bennington College in Vermont,[3] where he is also Director of the Graduate Writing Seminars.[5] He lives in New York's Hudson River Valley near the town of Catskill.

Books

  • The Earth Avails. Graywolf Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-55597-666-8.
  • Voluntary Servitude. Graywolf Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55597-408-4.
  • The Anchorage. University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55849-200-4.

Honors and awards

Reviews

Poetry magazine wrote,

Mark Wunderlich's first book, The Anchorage, is a vigorous, necessary attempt to make our words catch up with our changing world: 'This is America--beetles clustered with the harvest, dust roads trundling off at perfect angles, and signs proclaiming unbearable roadside attractions.' The poems are extravagantly -- perhaps I should say fiercely -- autobiographical.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "#12 - Mark Wunderlich", December 25, 2008, Keith, First Book Interviews
  2. ↑ Wunderlich, Mark (June 23, 2006). "Remembering Stanley Kunitz". Poetry Foundation. poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  3. 1 2 "Mark Wunderlich". Literature Program. Bennington College. literature.bennington.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  4. ↑ "Mark Wunderlich". AGNI Online. Boston University. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  5. ↑ "Wunderlich Named Director of the Writing Seminars | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  6. ↑ Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ F.D. REEVE (July 1, 2000). "The Anchorage.(Review)". Poetry.
  • Mark Wunderlich's homepage
  • "#12 - Mark Wunderlich", December 25, 2008, Keith, First Book Interviews
  • "The Glorious Thing: Jorie Graham and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation". American Poet. September 1996.
  • Poem: Gebet eines Ehemannes (A Husband's Prayer)

Poems in Periodicals

  • "Difficult Body", poets.org
  • "Once I Walked Out", thethepoetry.com
  • "The Trick; Difficult Body". Cortland Review. November 1998.
  • "From a Vacant House". Boston Review. October–November 1998. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008.
  • "Seen". Ploughshares. Winter 1999–2000. Archived from the original on 3 September 2001.
  • Coyote, with Mange. Poetry Magazine. March 2009. ; reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2010, guest editor Amy Gerstler, series editor David Lehman
  • The Corn Baby. Poetry Magazine. March 2009.
  • Waumandee. Poetry Magazine. March 2009.

Criticism

  • "Remembering Stanley Kunitz". Poetry Magazine.
  • "Openhearted: Stanley Kunitz and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation". poets.org.
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