CURRICULUM VITAE
Campbell McGrath
4468 Royal Palm Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Home: (305) 538-9982; Office: (305) 919-5954
mcgrathc@fiu.edu
EDUCATION
Columbia University, MFA, 1988, Creative Writing
The University of Chicago, AB, 1984, English Language and Literature, with Special and Departmental Honors
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Phillip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Florida International University 2001- present
Professor of English, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2001-present
Pearl Adelson Sherry Poet in the Department of English & William Vaughn Moody Professor in the Division
of Humanities, University of Chicago, Spring 2003
Associate Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1998-2001
Assistant Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1993-1998
Instructor, Warren Wilson College, Low Residency MFA in Writing, Asheville, NC, 1995
Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1992-1993
Instructor in Creative Writing, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1992-1993
Visiting Poet in the College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Spring, 1991
Lecturer, North Park College, Chicago, IL, 1990- 1991
TEACHING AWARDS
Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Florida International University, 1997
Teaching Incentive Plan Award, Florida International University, 1997
PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS
MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999
Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress, 1999
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1998
The Kingsley Tufts Prize, Claremont Graduate University, 1997
The Cohen Prize, Ploughshares, Emerson College, 1997
The Pushcart Prize, 1992
The Academy of American Poets Prize, 1987, 1985 and 1984
The Benjamin T. Burns Prize, Columbia University, 1986 and 1985
The Paul and Olga Menn Foundation Writing Award, 1984
The John Billings Fiske Prize, University of Chicago, 1984
The Napier Wilt Award, University of Chicago, 1984
PUBLICATIONS
• Books
Seven Notebooks (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins), forthcoming, 2007.
Heart of Anthracite: Prose Poems, 1980-2005 (Exeter, UK: Stride Press, 2005).
Pax Atomica (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2004).
Florida Poems (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2002).
Road Atlas (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1999).
Spring Comes to Chicago (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1996).
American Noise (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1993).
Capitalism (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1990).
• Chapbooks
Mangrovia (Saint Paul, MN: Short Line Editions, 1999).
Dust (Athens, OH: The Ohio Review Press, 1987).
• Volumes Edited
Ploughshares, Spring 2004, Emerson College, Boston, MA
Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, 2003, Tigertail Productions, Miami, FL
TriQuarterly, Spring, 2002, No. 112, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Translation
Wasps, by Aristophanes, in Aristophanes, 2, Penn Greek Drama Series, Slavitt and Bovie, eds.,
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 7-84, 1999.
• Poems in Journals and Periodicals
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“Rifle, Colorado” and “Silt, Colorado,” The Ohio Review, No. 36 (1986), pp. 76-77.
“Dust,” The Ohio Review, No. 39 (1987), pp. 65-80.
“Dialectical Poem #1” and “Capitalist Poem #25,” TriQuarterly, no. 71 (Winter, 1988), pp. 167-170.
“The Genius of Industry,” Witness, Vol. II, No. 4 (Winter 1988), pp. 56-61.
“Memphis,” Shenandoah, Vol. 38, No. 4 (1988), pp. 77-78.
“Torre dell’Orologia” and “Where the Water Runs Down,” River Styx, No. 26 (1988), pp. 50-53.
“Capitalist Poem #22,” Caliban, No. 6 (1989), pp. 188-189.
“Capitalist Poem #7” and “Berlin,” Kingfisher, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 70-73.
“What They Ate” and “What They Drank,” The New Yorker, November 27, 1989, p. 50.
“Los Angeles” and “Negril Beach, Jamaica,” Kingfisher, Vol. IV, No. 1 pp. 52-55.
“Capitalist Poem #19,” Big Wednesday, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), p. 55-56.
“Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach” and “Yellowknife,” Antæus, No. 64/65 (Spring/Fall, 1990), pp.
75-78.
“Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky” and “Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer,” The Paris Review,
No. 119 (Summer, 1991), pp. 241-243.
“Almond Blossoms, Rock and Roll, the Past Seen as Burning Fields,” “At the Freud Hilton” and “James
Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest,” Antæus, No. 67 (Fall, 1991), pp.
199-205.
“Wheel of Fire, the Mojave,” The New York Times, Section 1, p. 29, January 1, 1991.
“Praia do Forte” and “Spicer,” Pivot, Vol. XIV, No. 40 (1992), pp. 14-15.
“Dawn” and “Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas,” The Ohio Review, No. 48 (1992), pp. 67-69.
“Ode to the Wild Horses of Caineville, Utah,” TriQuarterly, No. 84 (Spring/Summer, 1992), pp. 108-112.
“Wild Thing,” Another Chicago Magazine, No. 24 (Fall, 1992), pp. 100-102.
“Music Box,” New American Writing, No. 10 (Fall, 1992), p. 76.
“Night Travelers,” The New Yorker, November 23, 1992, p.102.
“Smokestacks, Chicago” and “Sugar Skulls, Oaxaca,” The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer,
1993), pp. 490-493.
“Two Figures with Heat Lightning in the Sangre de Christo Mountains,” Boulevard, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 and 3
(Fall, 1993), pp. 68-69.
“Blue Tulips and Night Train for Jack Kerouac’s Grave,” “Rock Falls, Illinois” and “Shrimp Boats,
Biloxi,” Poetry East, No. 36 (Fall, 1993), pp. 51-62.
“Angels and the Bars of Manhattan,” Ploughshares, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 1993/94), pp. 170-172.
“The First Trimester, “ Antæus, No. 75/76 (Fall, 1994), pp. 297-299.
“Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas” and “Untitled,” Bomb, No. XXXXVI (Winter, 1994) p. 56.
Two excerpts from “The Bob Hope Poem,” TriQuarterly, No. 94 (Fall, 1995), pp. 170-190.
“Seashells, Manasota Key,” The Paris Review, No. 136 (Fall, 1995), pp. 78-79.
“Spring Comes to Chicago” and “Sylvia Plath,” The Ohio Review, No. 55 (1996), pp. 15-19.
“Capitalist Poem #36” and “Capitalist Poem #38,” Witness, Vol. X, No. 2 (1996), p. 146.
32. “The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial, “ The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 610612.
33. “Maizel at Shorty’s in Kendall,” TriQuarterly, No. 95 (Winter, 1996), p. 112.
34. “Plums” and “The Prose Poem,” The Paris Review, No. 140 (Fall, 1996), pp. 126-128.
35. “The Golden Angel Pancake House,” Third Coast (Summer/Fall, 1996), pp. 11-13.
36. “Dinosaurs,” TriQuarterly, No. 96 (Spring/Summer, 1996), pp. 171-173.
37. “Praia dos Orixas,” Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter, 1996-97), pp. 121-123.
38. “Baker, California,” Indiana Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 60-61.
39. “Biscayne Boulevard” and “El Balserito,” The New Times, Vol. 12, No. 6 (May 22-28, 1997), pp. 11-19.
40. “El Balserito,” Ploughshares, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 144-145.
41. “Elizabeth Bishop in the House on White Street” and “The Gulf,” Quarterly West, No. 44 (Spring/Summer,
1997), pp. 12-13.
42. Excerpt from “The Bob Hope Poem,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 294, No. 1765 (June, 1997), pp. 32-35.
43. “Biscayne Boulevard,” TriQuarterly , No. 100 (Fall, 1997), pp. 105-108.
44. “A Dove,” “Capitalist Poem #42” and “Port Olry,” The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. XX, No. 1
(Winter, 1998), pp. 80-82.
45. “A Map of Dodge County, Wisconsin,” “Florida” and “Jeffrey Lee Pierce,” Sycamore Review, Vol. Ten,
No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 1998), pp. 50-53.
46. “Las Vegas” and “Mountainair, New Mexico,” Luna, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 180-183.
47. “Albergo Santa Restituta,” Harvard Review, No. 14 (Spring, 1998), p. 88.
48. “Capitalist Poem #41” and “Jimmy Buffett,” Mangrove, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fall, 1998), pp. 11-15.
49. “Capitalist Poem #48,” Conduit, No. 6 (Fall, 1998), p. 19.
50. “The Golden Angel Pancake House,” Grantmakers in the Arts, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall, 1998), pp. 7-8.
51. “The Wreck,” Ploughshares, Vol. 24, No., 4 (Winter, 1998-99), p. 130.
52. “Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory” and “Rice & Beans,” Indiana Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring,
1999), pp. 102-103.
53. “Capitalist Poem #55,” River Styx, No. 54 (Spring, 1999), p. 30.
54. “Atlanta,” Paris Review, No. 151 (Summer, 1999) pp. 43-44.
55. “Love©,” Pleiades, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), p.110.
56. “North Carolina” and “Of Pure Forms,” Harvard Review, No. 18 (Spring, 2000), pp.47-48.
57. “Train Journal” and “Zeugma,” Chicago Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 1-9.
58. “Florida” and “The Florida Anasazi,” TriQuarterly, No. 107/108 (Spring/Summer, 2000), pp.417- 419.
59. “Edison in Fort Myers, 1885,” Ploughshares, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 2000-01), pp. 125-126
60. “Xena, Warrior Princess,” Pleaides, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter, 2001). p. 94.
61. “Benediction for the Savior of Orlando,” Indiana Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 69-71.
62. “Archimedes,” Colorado Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 111-112.
63. “The Florida Poem, TriQuarterly, No. 110/111 (Spring/Summer, 2001), pp. 337-351.
64. “William Bartram Beset by Crocodiles or Alligators,” Salt Hill. No. 10 (Fall, 2001), pp. 71-76.
65. “The Zebra Longwing,” Kenyon Review, Vol XXIV,No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 15-16.
66. “Mile Marker 73, Lower Matecumbe Key” and “The Strangler Fig,” Quarterly West, No. 53 (Fall/Winter
2001), pp.16-17.
67. “Because This Is Florida,” Paris Review, No. 161 (Spring, 2002), p. 127.
68. “Trouble with Miami,” Graffitti Rag, No. 5 (2002), p 60.
69. “Capitalist Poem #57” and “Girl with Blue Plastic Radio,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol XLI, No. 2
(Spring, 2002), pp. 246-248.
70. “Elizabeth Bishop in the House on White Street” and “The Last Days,” San Diego Weekly Reader, Vol. 31,
No. 18 (May 2, 2002), p. 84.
71. “At the Royal Palm Barbershop,” Solo, No. 5. (2002), pp. 123-124.
72. “The Human Heart,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2003, p. 82.
73. “Late Spring,” Poetry, April, 2004, pp. 14-15.
74. “Infinite Needs,” “Iowa” and “The Maelstrom,” Salmagundi, Nos. 144-145, Fall 2004, pp 113-121.
75. “Tiger,” Mad Love, June, 2004.
76. “Home” and “The Glann Road,” Electronic Poetry Review, 2004, www.epr.com.
77. “Adam and Eve,” “Everybody Knows John Lennon Is Dead” and “Rock and Roll,” Smartish Pace,
Issue 10, pp.151-155.
78. “Guns n’ Roses,” TriQuarterly, No. 119, pp. 55-58.
79. “Hits Of the 70s,” Georgia Review, Vol LVIII, No. 2 (Summer, 2004) pp. 282-287.
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“Steely Dan,” Mipoesia, 2004, www.mipo.com.
“Adam and Eve” and “Rock and Roll,” Street, April 30, 2004, pp. 25-26.
“The Human Heart, American Poet, Vol. 26, Spring, 2004, p. 27.
“Faulty Ghazal” and “Tony Hoagland,” Gulf Coast, Vol 17, No. 1, Winter/Spring, 2005, pp. 204-208.
“Girl with Blue Plastic Radio” and “Two Songs”, Organica, Vol. 23, No. 68, Winter/Spring, 2005, p. 20.
“Li-Young Lee,” Margie, Vol. 4, 2005, p. 235.
“The Indivisibles,” The New Yorker,. July 11 & 18, 2005, p. 46.
“Homage to Syntax,” Kenyon Review, Vol XXVII, No. 4, Fall, 2005, pp. 115-116.
“3 a.m.,” “Civilization” and “Surfers,” Call Review, No. 3, 2005, pp. 83-86.
“September,” Five Points, Vol. IX, No. 3, 2005, p.137.
“Order and Disorder” and “Rilke,” Poetry Northwest, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 14-15.
“Now,” “The Past” and “Time,” Salmagundi, forthcoming.
“Albert Goldbarth,” “Forms of Attention” and “Ode to Inspiration,” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXVI,
No. 2, 2006, pp. 108-110.
“Eclogue” and “Hiroshige,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XLV, No. 2, Spring, 2006, pp. 257-262.
“Dahlias” and “The World Has Flooded Over Me,” Sentence, No. 4, 2006, pp.90-93.
“Texts,” Pleaides, forthcoming.
“Philadelphia” and “Two Poems for Frank O’Hara,” Ploughshares, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2006, pp 109-110.
“Phoenix” and “Rhetoric,” New American Writing, No. 24, 2006, pp. 109-110.
“Consciousness,” Agni, forthcoming.
“Krome Avenue, Fugue, No. 31, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 57-60.
“Ode to a Can of Schaeffer Beer,” New England Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2006, pp. 210-212.
“Ode to Bureaucrats” and “Ode to the Plantar Fascia,” Pool, Vol. 5, 2006, pp. 71-73.
“Villanelle,” Poetry, July/August, 2006, p. 330.
“September 11,” Kenyon Review, forthcoming.
“The Future” and “Then,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 82, No. 4, Fall, 2006, pp. 82-84.
“Dim Sum” and “Justice,” TriQuarterly, forthcoming.
“Issa,” Cue, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 2-3.
“Form,” The Atlantic Monthly, forthcoming.
“Lincoln Road,” Slate, forthcoming.
“Invitations” and “Storm Valediction,” Indiana Review, forthcoming.
“Existence,” “Half-Day Blues” and “Luxury,” Crab Orchard Review, forthcoming.
“Lynda Hull,” Arts & Letters, forthcoming.
• Poems in Anthologies and Textbooks
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New Voices: Selected University & College Prize-Winning Poems, Hall, ed. (New York, NY: Academy of
American Poets, 1989); “Five Sonnets for Joseph Cornell,” pp. 95-98.
The Pushcart Prize XVII: Best of the Small Presses, Henderson, ed. (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 199293); “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” pp. 177-178.
The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry, Collier, ed. (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan
University Press, 1993); “Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach,” “What They Drank” and “Dialectical
Poem #1,” pp. 246-248.
For a Living: The Poetry of Work , Coles and Oresick, eds. (Urbana and Chicago, IL: The University of
Illinois Press, 1995); “Capitalist Poem #5,” p. 248.
Poetry of the American West, Deming, ed. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996);
“Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky” and “James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific
Northwest,” pp. 301-304.
Having a Wonderful Time: An Anthology of South Florida Writers, Chinelly, Dufresne and Hettich, eds.
(Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1997); “Delphos, Ohio,” pp. 184-187.
Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, Bosselaar and Brown, eds. (Minneapolis,
MN: Milkweed Editions, 1997); “Angels and the Bars of Manhattan,” pp. 247-249.
The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Collier and Plumly, eds., (Hanover,
NH: University Press of New England, 1999); “A Dove,” “El Balserito,” “Las Vegas,” and “Manitoba,” pp.
177-181.
Acts of Reading, Harkin, ed., (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999); “Capitalist Poem #7,” p.651652.
10. Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing, Guzman and Starkey, eds., (Chicago, IL:
Wild Onion Press, 1999); “Smokestacks, Chicago” and “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” pp.527-529.
11. Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves, Capella and Wormser, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 2000); “Langdon, North Dakota,” pp. 316-318.
12 American Poetry: The Next Generation, Costanzo and Daniels, eds. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon
University Press, 2000); “At the Freud Hilton” and “Shrimp Boats, Biloxi,” pp. 265-267.
13. The New Young American Poets, Prufer, ed. (Carbondale, IL: University of Southern Illinois Press, 2000);
“The First Trimester,” “Delphos, Ohio,” “Spring Comes to Chicago,” and “Wheatfield Under Clouded
Sky,” pp.105-111.
14. The New American Poets, Collier, ed. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000); “Capitalist
Poem #36,” “Florida,” “The Florida Anasazi,” “Jack Gilbert” and “Jeffrey Lee Pierce,” pp. 143-147.
15. Power Lines: The Guild Complex Anthology, Warr, ed. (Chicago, IL: Tia Chucha Press, 2000); “Capitalist
Poem #55,” p. 120.
16. Urban Nature, Bosselaar, ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000); “The First Trimester,” pp.
175-177.
17. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, Moustaki, ed., (Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2001); “A
Dove,” pp. 202-203.
18. American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, Suarez and Van Cleave, eds. (Iowa City, IA: University of
Iowa Press, 2001), “El Balserito” and “Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory,” pp. 227 and 242.
19. Ohio Review: New & Selected, Vol II, Dodd, ed., (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2001), “Sunset,
Route 90, Brewster County, Texas,” p 70.
20. Poets of the New Century, Higgerson and Weingarten, eds. (Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2002),
“Capitalist Poem #36,” “Capitalist Poem #38,” “The Manatee,” and “The Miami Beach Holocaust
Memorial,” pp. 226-229.
21. Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry, Muth, ed. (Winside, NE: Logan House Press,
2001), “Delphos, Ohio,” pp. 164-166.
22. Birth: A Literary Companion, Barrett and Kovacic, eds. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2002),
“Delphos, Ohio,” pp 28-30.
23. Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary Poets, McHugh and Voigt, eds. (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 2002, “Because This Is Florida,” “Benediction for the Savior of Orlando,”
“The Orange,” “The Zebra Longwing,” pp.191-196.
24. Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, Suarez and Van Cleave, eds. (Iowa City, IA:
University of Iowa Press, 2002), “Smokestacks, Chicago, pp 124-125.
25. Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon, Carbo & Duhamel, eds. (Los Angeles, CA: The Anthology
Press, 2002), “Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas,” p. 133.
26. American Poetry: Behind the Scenes, Van Cleave, ed. (New York, NY: Longman Publishers, 2002),
“Capitalist Poem #5,” “Almond Blossoms, Rock & Roll, the Past Seen As Burning Leaves,” “Delphos,
Ohio,” “The Prose Poem,” “The Orange,” pp. 180-187.
27. Poems for America, Ciararu, ed. (New York, NY: Scribner, 2002), “Capitalist Poem #5,” p. 216.
28. Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Lehman, ed. (New York, NY: Scribner), “The
Prose Poem,” pp. 279-280.
29. Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” Bowman, ed. (New
York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003) “Delphos, Ohio,” “Capitalist Poem #42, “ “The Golden Angel Pancake
House,” “The Gulf,” pp. 21-27.
30. Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website, Boller, Selby and Yost, eds.
(Naperville, IL: Source Books, 2003), “The Prose Poem,” p. 349.
31. No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets, Gonzalez, ed. (Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2003), ten
poems, pp.206-218.
32. Air Fare: Stories, Poems & Essays on Flight, Brown & Taylore, eds. (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books,
2004), “Night Travelers,” pp.11-13.
33. The Book of Irish American Poetry, Tobin, ed. (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press), “Angels
and the Bars of Manhattan,” “Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory,” “Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito
Beach,” “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” forthcoming.
34. Autumn House Anthology, Thompson, ed. (Pittsburgh, PA: Autumn House Press, 2005), “Girl with Blue
Plastic Radio,” “Iowa,” “Rock and Roll,” pp. 230-234.
35. Gertrude Stein Awards Anthology, Messerli, ed. (Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer Press), “The Glann
Road,” forthcoming.
36. Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets, Walsh, ed. (Macon, GA: Mercer University
Press), “Humility,” “Girl with Blue Plastic Radio,” “Snapdragons,” “Xena, Warrior Princess,” pp. 229-232.
37. The Dire Elegies: 60 Poets on Endangered Species of North America, Merrifield and Weir eds. (Kanona,
NY: FootHills Press), “The Manatee,” p. 84.
38. A Beatles Reader, Sawyer, ed. (New York, NY: Penguin Books), “Everybody Knows John Lennon Is
Dead,” forthcoming.
39. Manthology, Crist-Evans, Fetherston and Weingarten, eds. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2006),
“Xena, Warrior Princess,” p. 103.
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“The Shroud of Turin and the Urban Temple: Memory and Imagination in C.K. Williams’s Tar,” Poetry
East, No. 34 (Fall, 1992), pp. 51-64.
“An Interview with Campbell McGrath,” by Dallas Crow, Bomb, No. XXXVI (Winter, 1994), pp. 54-57.
“Exploring the Process of Revision: A Dove,” Literary Cavalcade, Scholastic Press, (November/December,
1997), pp. 36-37.
“The Artifice of Absurdity: An Interview with Campbell McGrath,” by Martin Walls, Sycamore Review,
Volume 10, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 1998), pp. 54-64.
“A Conversation with Campbell McGrath,” by Paul Perry, Mangrove, Volume 5, No. 1 (Fall, 1998), pp.
62-73.
Translator’s Introduction, Wasps, by Aristophanes, in Aristophanes, 2, Penn Greek Drama Series, Slavitt
and Bovie, eds., (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 1-6, 1999.
“The Artifice of Absurdity: An Interview with Campbell McGrath,” by Martin Walls, in Delicious
Imaginations: Conversations with Contemporary Writers, Griffiths and Kehrwald, eds. (West Lafayette,
IN; Purdue University Press, 1999), pp. 207-220.
“The Shroud of Turin and the Urban Temple,” in They Say This: An Anthology of Essays on Poetry and
Poetics from the Pages of Poetry East, Poetry East, Nos. 47 &48, 1999, pp. 141-154.
“Poetry, Popular Culture, and Perseverance: An Interview with Campbell McGrath,” by Ryan G. Van
Cleave and Miles G. Watson, Sundog, Volume 19, No. 2 (Fall, 1999), pp.29-44.
“Notes on American Poetry,” on-line symposium on “What’s American About American Poetry,” Poetry
Society of America, 2000, www.poetryorg.com
“Graphing Your Life: An Exercise,” The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, Moustaki, ed.,
(Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2001), pp. 285-286.
“Grievous Angel,” Symposium on Poetry vs. Song, Third Coast, Fall, 2001, pp. 110-111..
“The Cattle Raid,” Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life, Bryan & Olsen, eds. (Louisville, KY:
Sarabande Books, 2003), pp 161-166.
“On Creating Your Own Rules,” Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes, Van Cleave, ed.
(New York, NY: Longman Publishers, 2002), pp. 188-192.
“Reading: Florida Poems,” an Interview with Judith Moore, San Diego Weekly Reader, Vol. 31, No. 18
(May 2, 2002), pp. 80-83.
Introduction, Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, Tigertail Productions, 2003.
Introduction, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, by Paul Guest, New Issues Press
First Book Prize-Winner, Western Michigan University Press, 2003.
“A Specular Extremist: On Vijay Seshadri’s The Long Meadow, “ American Poet: Journal of the Academy
of American Poets, Vol. 26, Spring 2004, pp.24-25.
Editor’s Introduction, Ploughshares, Spring, 2004.
“Poets Q & A,” www.smartishpace.com/home/poetsqa/mcgrath_answers.html
“Self-Contained and Self-Generated,” interview, MiPo, Summer, 2004, www.mipoesias.com/Florida/
mcgrathinterview.htm
Virtual Writer Interview, www.virtualwriters.net/interviews.asp?action=2&contentid=14
KCRG’s “Bookworm, with Michael Silverblatt,” interview, www.
“Campbell McGrath on Place, the Prose Poem, and the State of Poetry in America: An Interview,” Fugue,
No. 31, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 50-56.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Selected)
Jury Member, Florida Writing Awards, 2006
Judge, Fugue Poetry Prize, 2006
Jury Member, Whiting Foundation Writing Awards, 2005, 2006
Judge, Gulf Stream Poetry Prize, 2005
Jury Member, O.B. Hardison Prize, Folger Library, 2004-2006
Judge, National Poetry Series, 2004
Judge, First Book Prize, Anhinga Press, 2004
Judge, Lawrence Lieberman Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan, 2003
Judge, First Book Prize, Tupelo Press, 2003
Head of Jury, Laughlin Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2003
Judge, First Book Prize, New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, 2002
Judge, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for Younger Writers, 2002
Judge, Davidson College Writing Prizes, 2002
Jury Member, Laughlin Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2001-2002
Founding Director, Miami Screen/Writers Series, 2000-2002
Program Director, Writers on the Bay, 1993-2000
Judge, McKnight Black Poetry Prize, Lafayette College, 1999
Judge, W.B. Yeats Society of America Poetry Prize, 1998
UNIVERSITY READINGS
Lynne University, Palm Beach, FL, 2006; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2006; University of Idaho,
Moscow, ID, 2006; Miles College, Birmingham, AL, 2004; Samford University, Birmingham, AL, 2004;
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL, 2004; University Alabama-Birmingham, 2004; Montevallo
University, Montevallo, AL, 2004; Providence College, Providence, RI, 2003; University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL, 2003; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003; University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2002;
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002; Seattle University, Seattle, WA, 2002; Davidson College,
Davidson, NC, 2002; Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, 2001; University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
2000; Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, 2000; Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 2000; Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL, 1999; Nova Southeastern University, Davie, FL, 1999; University of Notre Dame, South Bend,
IN, 1998; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1998; Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, 1997; Columbia
University, New York, NY, 1997; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1997; The University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, 1997; Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 1997; University of Redlands, Redlands,
CA, 1997; Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, 1996; Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, 1995;
Wright Community College, Chicago, IL, 1994; University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1994; University of
California, San Diego, CA, 1993; North Park College, Chicago, IL, 1993; DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 1992
READINGS, LECTURES, PAPERS, PANELS (Selected)
Featured Reader, James Wright Poetry Festival, Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, 2006
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Delray Beach, Florida, 2005
Poetry and Comedy, Reading & Discussion, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2005
“Readings and Conversations,” Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005
Witter-Bynner Fellows Reading, Library of Congress, 2005
“Ironic, Ain’t It?”, Sherry Poetry Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2003.
Panel on “Censorship and the World,” Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Miami, FL, 2002
“Poetry and Comedy,” Warren Wilson College MFA Program, Asheville, NC, 2001.
“Notes on American Poetry,” Visiting Humanist Lecture, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, 2001.
Panel, “On Translation,” National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2000.
Library of Congress, Poet Laureate’s Bicentennial Reading, 1999.
Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, 1999.
“Art & Myth: A Millennial Poetics for Florida,” Florida International University, 1999.
Library of Congress, Kingsley Tufts Prize-Winners Reading, Washington, DC, 1998.
National Poetry Month Reading (with John Ashbery and Jorie Graham), New York, NY, 1998.
Artists on the Cutting Edge, San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA, 1996.
“The Prose Poem,” Warren Wilson College MFA Program, Swannanoa, NC, 1995.
“The Art of Poetry,” The Writer’s Toolbox, WLRN TV, Miami, FL, 1995.
“All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, recorded at Books & Books, Miami Beach, FL, 1994.
“Carl Sandburg,” TriQuarterly Lectures on Chicago Writers, Evanston, IL, 1991.
Grolier Book New Poets Reading, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
Academy of American Poets “New Voices,” NY, NY, 1991.
REFERENCES
References available upon request.