Trauma Vs. Transgression: Examining Confessional Poetry and Whiteness through a 21st Century Lens with Cate Marvin
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | is the author of four books of poetry, including Event Horizon (Copper Canyon, 2022) and Oracle (Norton), a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2015. With poet Michael Dumanis, she is the coeditor of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). In 2009 Marvin co-founded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, an organization that seeks to 鈥渆xplore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women鈥 in contemporary culture. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and a Whiting Writers鈥 Award, she teaches at the College of Staten Island and in the University of Southern Maine鈥檚 Stonecoast MFA program. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.
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