Matthew Minicucci
{{short description|American writer and poet (born 1981)}}
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| occupation = Poet, teacher
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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| awards = Oregon Book Award, Wick Poetry Prize
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Matthew Minicucci is an American writer and poet. His first full-length collection, Translation, won the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize. His second collection, Small Gods, was published in 2017 and won the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry.{{cite interview |last=Otwell |first=Rachel |title=Shelterbelt Series: Matthew Minicucci's Poetry Has Midwestern Vibes & Heart-Breaking Themes |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/shelterbelt-series-matthew-minicuccis-poetry-has-midwestern-vibes-heart-breaking-themes#stream/0 |publisher=NPR Illinois |location=Suggs Studio |date=February 24, 2016 |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Suzette |date=April 23, 2019 |title=Hooray for the 2019 Oregon Book Award Winners! |url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/04/23/26367724/hooray-for-the-2019-oregon-book-award-winners |magazine=Portland Mercury |location=Portland, OR |access-date=May 19, 2019 }} Having received numerous fellowships and residencies, including with the National Park Service, the C. Hamilton Bailey Oregon Literary Fellowship, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the James Merrill House, Minicucci was named the 2019 Dartmouth College Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place.{{cite news |author= |title=On Being Named the 2019 Dartmouth Poet in Residence |url=https://frostplace.org/dartmouth-poet-in-residence/2019matthewminicucci/ |work=The Frost Place |location=Franconia, NH |date=May 10, 2019 |access-date=20 May 2019}}
Career
After completing a degree in Classical Literature and Languages, Minicucci pursued his MFA at the University of Illinois; he has trained with Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Tyehimba Jess, and A. Van Jordan. His chapbook, Reliquary, marshalls the Stations of the Cross to explore themes later positively received in the full-length Translation. The Kenyon Review remarked the book's ″attention to craft as well as its thematic concerns and narrative devices [invoke] ancient history and myth to make sense of the poet's own personal history of loss.″{{cite magazine |last=Brunton |first=Jamie |date=February 3, 2017 |title=On Matthew Minicucci's Translation |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/reviews/translation-by-matthew-minicucci-738439/ |magazine=The Kenyon Review |location=Gambler, OH |publisher=Kenyon College |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
In his citation for the Oregon Book Award, judge and 2019 Pulitzer-prize winner Forrest Gander remarked
The lexicon is inordinately rich, somehow both precise and lush. And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal tears. Disinterested in irony, softly-toned, Minicucci opens depths inside us that we can sense long after we’ve closed his book.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Book Award Finalists |magazine=2019 Oregon Book Award Ceremony Program |location=Portland, OR |publisher=Literary Arts |date=April 22, 2019}}
Minicucci's poetry, essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, the Gettysburg Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Oregon Humanities magazine, Passages North, Pleiades, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Southern Indiana Review, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch, among others. It has also been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.
He serves as a member of the advisory board for Ninth Letter, and as senior poetry editor to Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads. Minicucci has taught writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Millikin University, Pacific University, the University of Portland,{{cite news |author= |title=UP professor Matthew Minicucci wins 2019 Oregon Book Award |url=https://www.up.edu/news/2019/05/minicucci-wins-oregon-book-award.html |publisher=University of Portland |location=Portland, OR |date=May 1, 2019 |access-date=20 May 2019}} and Linfield College.{{cite web |title=English Faculty and Staff |url=https://www.linfield.edu/english/faculty.html |website=Department of English |publisher=Linfield College |accessdate=2019-08-20}} He is currently a senior fellow with the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.{{cite web |title=Faculty & Staff Directory |url=https://blount.as.ua.edu/people/ |website=The Blount Scholars Program |publisher=University of Alabama |accessdate=11 May 2020}}
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book |date=2023 |title=Dual: Poems |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123227471-dual |publisher=Acre Books / University of Cincinnati |isbn=9781946724670}}
- {{cite book |date=2017 |title=Small Gods: Poems |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31154671-small-gods |publisher=A Green Rose Book, New Issues Poetry & Prose / University of Chicago Press |isbn=9781936970476}}
- {{cite book |date=2015 |title=Translation: Poems |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26778300-translation |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=9781606352625}}
- {{cite book |date=2013 |title=Reliquary: Poems |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31181673-reliquary |publisher=Accents |isbn=9781936628131}}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book |date=2018 |title=The Cumberland River Review: The First Five Years |url=http://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4837 |publisher=Trevecca Nazarene University |isbn=9780976629696 }}
- {{cite book |date=2017 |title=Booth X |publisher=Butler University Press |isbn=9780990636441 }}
- {{cite book |date=2015 |title=Best New Poets 2014: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers |url=http://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4837 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |isbn=9780976629696 }}
=Reviews=
- {{cite magazine |date=June 22, 2018 |title=Our Lady of Perpetual Movement: review of Virgin by Analicia Sotelo |url=https://therumpus.net/2018/06/virgin-by-analicia-sotelo/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
- {{cite magazine |date=February 9, 2018 |title=Intentions, Inquiries, and Impossible Tasks: review of Marvels of the Invisible by Jenny Molberg |url=https://therumpus.net/2018/02/marvels-of-the-invisible-by-jenny-molberg/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
- {{cite magazine |date=March 17, 2017 |title=Music Always About to Begin: review of Not on the Last Day, But the Very Last by Justin Boening |url=https://therumpus.net/2017/03/not-on-the-last-day-but-on-the-very-last-by-justin-boening/ |magazine=The Rumpus |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
- {{cite magazine |date=March 10, 2014 |title=Don't Look Back You Said: review of The Eyes the Window by Marci Rae Johnson |url=https://philareview.com/2014/03/10/dont-look-back-you-said/ |magazine=Philadelphia Review of Books |location=Philadelphia, PA |access-date=May 19, 2019 }}
References
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External links
- [http://matthewminicucci.com/ Official website]
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14409060.Matthew_Minicucci/ Goodreads profile]
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| audio2 = [https://kboo.fm/sites/default/files/episode_audio/kboo_episode.2.180219.2200.3913.63617.mp3/ ″The Body,″ ″Proverbs,″ "Upsilon, "Beta," "Eta," "Omicron," "Pi," "Phi," "Omega," "Epithet," "Brief Song of the Almost-Lost," "Priam," and ″Philemon″] read by the author as part of an interview.{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=February 19, 2018 |title=Talking Earth with Matthew Minicucci |trans-title= |medium= |url=https://kboo.fm/media/63617-talking-earth-matthew-minicucci |format=audio recording |time= |location=Portland, OR |work=KBOO Radio}}
| audio3 = [http://www.nereview.com/files/2017/01/Beta-Theta-and-Nu-by-Matthew-Minicucci.mp3?_=1/ ″Beta,″ ″Nu,″ and ″Theta″] read by the author at Bread Loaf.{{cite AV media |people=Matthew Minicucci |date=March 29, 2017 |title=Mid Week Break: Matthew Minicucci Reads at Bread Loaf |trans-title= |medium= |url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2014-fall/selections/matthew-minicucci-763879/ |format=audio recording |time= |location=Bread Loaf Writers' Conference |work=New England Review }}
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Category:Latin–English translators
Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Category:Writers from Massachusetts
Category:Poets from Massachusetts
Category:21st-century American poets