Jennifer Militello
{{short description|American poet and professor}}
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Jennifer Militello is an American poet and professor. She is author of the award-winning memoir Knock Wood which appeared from Dzanc Books{{cite web|url=https://www.dzancbooks.org/our-books/knock-wood|title=Knock Wood by Jennifer Militello|publisher=Dzanc Books|access-date=July 29, 2022}} in 2019, and five collections of poetry including The Pact, Tupelo Press, 2021. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Flinch of Song, was published in 2009 by Tupelo Press,{{cite web|url=https://www.tupelopress.org/product/flinch-song-jennifer-militello/|title=Tupelo Press — Flinch of Song by Jennifer Militello|author=Tupelo Press|work=tupelopress.org|accessdate=July 29, 2022}} and won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize.
Her second collection, Body Thesaurus, was named a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award by Marilyn Hacker in 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.tupelopress.org/product-category/author/jennifer-militello/ |title=Tupelo Press — Jennifer Militello |author=Tupelo Press |work=tupelopress.org |accessdate=July 29, 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jennifermilitello.com/about |title=Jennifer Militello |work=jennifermilitello.com |accessdate=August 22, 2015}} Her third book A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Her chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail appeared from Finishing Line Press in 2006.
Militello was named the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire in 2024.{{cite news |last1=Furukawa |first1=Julia |title=Jennifer Militello is New Hampshire's new State Poet Laureate |url=https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-04-03/jennifer-militello-is-new-hampshires-new-state-poet-laureate |access-date=October 9, 2024 |work=New Hampshire Public Radio |date=April 3, 2024}}
Life
Militello was born in New York City and raised in Rhode Island. She has taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is currently teaching in the MFA program at New England College, and living in Goffstown, New Hampshire.{{cite web|url=http://www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/poetshowcase/poetlaureate60.html|title=NH Arts - Poet Laureate|work=nh.gov|accessdate=22 August 2015}}
Her poetry can be found in literary journals and magazines including AGNI,{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2006/militello.html|title=AGNI Online: Summary of Roots by Jennifer Militello|work=bu.edu|accessdate=22 August 2015}} American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/165|title=Writers, Quotes, Interviews, Artist, Biography - Paris Review|work=theparisreview.org|accessdate=22 August 2015}} Poetry, Tin House, The Virginia Quarterly Review,{{Cite web |url=http://www.vqronline.org/search/?q=militello |title=VQR > Search > Militello |access-date=2011-08-29 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416094316/http://www.vqronline.org/search/?q=militello |archive-date=2013-04-16 |url-status=dead }} Boston Review[http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.4/militello.php Boston Review > July/August 2008 > Interview under Hypnosis by Jennifer Militello] and in anthologies including Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press).
Awards
Militello's honors include grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is a Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Works
- Flinch of Song, Tupelo Press; November 1, 2009, {{ISBN|1932195769}}
- Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press, May 31, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1936797288}}
- A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press, May 1, 2016, {{ISBN|978-1-936797-75-2}}
- Knock Wood, Dzanc Books, August 29, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1-945814-96-9}}
References
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- {{cite web |url=https://www.dzancbooks.org/print-books-in-eformat/knock-wood-by-jennifer-militello?rq=knock%20wood |title=Knock Wood by Jennifer Militello |publisher=Dzanc Books |access-date=2020-11-21}}
External links
- {{official website|http://www.jennifermilitello.com}}
- [http://www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/2009%20Fellows/jennifermilitello.htm New Hampshire Council on the Arts > Jennifer Militello]
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Category:Poets from New Hampshire
Category:Poets from Rhode Island
Category:People from Goffstown, New Hampshire
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Poets from New York City
Category:Brown University faculty
Category:Rhode Island School of Design faculty
Category:University of Massachusetts Lowell faculty