Randall Mann

Born in Provo, Utah, the only son of Olympic Track and Field medalist Ralph Mann, Mann grew up in Kentucky and Florida, and earned a BA and an MFA from the University of Florida.[http://www.english.ufl.edu/crw/publications.html University of Florida info] Since 1998, he has lived in San Francisco.

Mann's poems have appeared in numerous periodicals—including The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Washington Post—and he has published six full-length poetry collections. His first collection, Complaint in the Garden, published by Zoo Press in 2004, won the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry.{{Cite journal |last=Baker |first=David |date=2004 |title=On Randall Mann's "Complaint in the Garden" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4338585 |journal=The Kenyon Review |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=93–96 |jstor=4338585 |issn=0163-075X}} Mann's next collection, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009, was praised by the Los Angeles Times: "craft and bravura mix well" and "the clarity startles".{{Cite web |last=Rayner |first=Richard |date=2009-03-29 |title=New in paperback: Wit, elegance and war |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-caw-new-paperbacks29-2009mar29-story.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} The book was named a finalist for the California Book Award{{Cite web |date=2010-03-28 |title=California Book Award finalists |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/california-book-award-finalists-3194928.php |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=SFGATE |language=en}} and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.{{Cite web |last=Valenzuela |first=Tony |date=2010-05-10 |title=22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2010/05/2010-awards-finalists-winners/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}} Mann's next two collections were published by Persea Books. Straight Razor, published in 2013, was described by the Los Angeles Times as full of "breathtaking honesty",{{Cite web |last= |date=2014-01-09 |title=Randall Mann and the poetics of desire |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-randall-mann-and-the-poetics-of-desire-20140109-story.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} was named a best poetry book of the year by the Kansas City Star,The Kansas City Star. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article332835/100-ways-to-celebrate-the-written-word.html (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018). and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.Lambda Literary. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018). Proprietary, published in 2017, was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award{{Cite web |last=Boureau |first=Ella |date=2018-03-06 |title=30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2018/03/lambda-literary-award-finalists/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}} and the Northern California Book Award.{{Cite web |title=Poetry Flash > programs |url=https://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2018 |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=poetryflash.org}} In a review of Proprietary, Tess Taylor on NPR's All Things Considered said that "Mann imagines anew what it means to connect or to feel at a loss in the age of the Internet";NPR. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/535665871/randall-manns-proprietary-reinvents-classic-san-francisco-poetry (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018). Nathan Blansett in The Kenyon Review wrote that "Proprietary shows Mann at his most incisive";{{Cite web |title=On Proprietary by Randall Mann |url=https://kenyonreview.org/reviews/proprietary-by-randall-mann-738439/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=The Kenyon Review |language=en-US}} and Walter Holland, writing in Lambda Literary, wrote "Mann's work should be admired for its ferocity, its craft, and its unabashedly gay point of view."{{Cite web |last=Holland |first=Walter |date=2017-08-08 |title='Proprietary' by Randall Mann |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2017/08/proprietary-randall-mann/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}}

Mann is also the co-author of the textbook Writing Poems, Seventh Edition, published by Pearson Longman in 2007.

In 2004, Mann was named to the OUT 100 list by OUT Magazine.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22OUT+100%22+2004&pg=PA14 |title=Out |date= December 2004|publisher=Here Publishing |language=en}} He was named a Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library in 2010.San Francisco Public Library. http://www.friendssfpl.dreamhosters.com/events/laureates (Retrieved 17 Jul 2018). In 2013, he received the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-10-19 |title=Poetry Magazine Prizes |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/prizes |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}

• Deal: New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press, 2023. {{ISBN|978-1556596766}}.
• A Better Life. Persea Books, 2021. {{ISBN|978-0892555314}}.
• Proprietary. Persea Books, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0892554812}}.
• Straight Razor. Persea Books, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0892554300}}.
• Breakfast with Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0226503448}}.
• Complaint in the Garden. Zoo Press, 2004. {{ISBN|978-1932023121}}.

• Writing Poems, Seventh Edition. With Michelle Boisseau & Robert Wallace. Pearson Longman, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0321474063}}.

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• [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/randall-mann Randall Mann at the Poetry Foundation]
• [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/randall-mann Randall Mann at the Academy of American Poets]
• [https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-six/randall-mann-interview/ Interview, The Adroit Journal]
• [https://lithub.com/taking-down-corporate-culture-with-poetry/ Interview, Literary Hub]
• [http://32poems.com/poem-requires-interview-randall-mann/ Interview, 32 Poems]

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