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Ange Mlinko

Ange Mlinko

American poet and critic (born 1969)

Ange Mlinko (born September 19, 1969[1] in Philadelphia) is an American poet and critic. The author of six books of poetry, Mlinko was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2014–15.[2] She teaches poetry at the University of Florida, and is the poetry editor of Subtropics.[3] Her most recent book, Venice, was published in April 2022.

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Background

Ange Mlinko was born in Philadelphia. Her parents came to the US a few years before she was born. "My father’s family was from Hungary, my mother’s from Belorussia, and they all had passed through Brazil after the Second World War, so intra-family communication happened in Portuguese, and they spoke their hearth language amongst themselves."[4] She earned her BA from St. John's College and MFA from Brown University. She is the author of six books of poetry: Venice (2022); Distant Mandate (2017); Marvelous Things Overheard (2013), which was selected by both The New Yorker and the Boston Globe as a best book of 2013;[5] Shoulder Season (2010), a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award; Starred Wire (2005), which was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004 and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Matinees (1999).[6]

Her poems are about urban life, about language and its failings, about the things we see and do not see. She is often compared to Frank O’Hara. The New Yorker praised her “unique sense of humor and mystery.”[7] John Ashbery said of her collection Starred Wire, “A fine-grained light like that of a nineteenth-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems."

Mlinko has published widely as a critic, and her honors and awards include the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism, the Frederick Bock prize from Poetry magazine for her poem “Cantata for Lynette Roberts,” and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. Mlinko has worked in Brooklyn, Providence, Boston, and Morocco. She has taught poetry at Brown, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, and the University of Houston. She was the poetry editor for The Nation[8] from 2013 to 2016.[9]

Awards

Works

Books

  • Immediate Orgy & Audit (Small Pr Distribution, 1996), poetry, 30 pages, ISBN 978-9997736673
  • Matinées (Zoland Books, 1999), poetry, 55 pages, ISBN 978-1581950052
  • Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), poetry, 70 pages, ISBN 978-1566891776
  • The Children's Museum (Prefontaine Press, 2007), poetry, 18 pages, chapbook in an edition of 162.
  • Shoulder Season, (Coffee House Press, 2010), poetry, 82 pages, ISBN 978-1566892438
  • Marvelous Things Overheard, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), poetry, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0374534806
  • Distant Mandate (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), poetry, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0374248215
  • Venice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), poetry, 144 pages, ISBN 978-0374604004

Other

References

Citations

  1. [1]
    Lauer, Brett Flecher; Kelly, Aimee, eds. (2004). Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. Amherst, Massachusetts: Verse Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0974635316.
  2. [2]
    "Ange Mlinko".
  3. [3]
    "Subtropics: The Literary Journal of the University of Florida".
  4. [4]
    "A Lot of My 'Process' is Just Mucking About". 28 June 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Best Poetry of 2013". The Boston Globe.
  6. [6]
    "Ange Mlinko". 22 July 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Briefly Noted". The New Yorker. 21 August 2005.
  8. [8]
    "Masthead". The Nation. 24 March 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  9. [9]
    "Ange Mlinko". 22 July 2021.
  10. [10]
    "Laurels for Ange Mlinko". Archived from the original on 2009-04-17.
  11. [11]
    "Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation". Reuters. April 14, 2009. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012.

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