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Mark Magoon

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Mark Magoon is an author and educator.

His publishing credentials feature works of poetry and creative nonfiction that have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. His first book of poems--The Upper Peninsula Misses You (ELJ Editions, 2015)--is very much writing of place, but the haunting tale of broken families and languishing landscapes found within could just as likely be from anywhere across America.

Magoon is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English at University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches poetry and composition. His poetry courses explore the construction of voice in British and American poetry, strongly focusing on the relationship between form and content. His First-Year Writing compositi Mark Magoon is an author and educator.

His publishing credentials feature works of poetry and creative nonfiction that have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. His first book of poems--The Upper Peninsula Misses You (ELJ Editions, 2015)--is very much writing of place, but the haunting tale of broken families and languishing landscapes found within could just as likely be from anywhere across America.

Magoon is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English at University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches poetry and composition. His poetry courses explore the construction of voice in British and American poetry, strongly focusing on the relationship between form and content. His First-Year Writing composition courses use social justice as both mirror and lens en route to academic writing, and his pedagogy is concerned with critical inquiry, rhetoric, and the discovery of voice in varying discourse communities. Magoon is also a UIC Summer College Instructor with the Summer Enrichment Writing Workshop, which provides incoming freshman placed into preparatory writing courses the opportunity to sharpen their writing skills before starting at the university in the fall. Additionally, he serves as a Faculty Mentor as part of the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative. In 2016 he was a Honoring Our Professors Excellence (HOPE) Award nominee.

His writing can be found in numerous literary journals, magazines, and all over the web; including After Hours, Blue Fifth Review, DIAGRAM, DIALOGIST, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, The Nervous Breakdown, and many other venues. His poem "From the Fire" appears in the Eclectica Magazine Best Poetry anthology, which celebrates twenty years of publishing. His lyric essay "Chef! Chef! Chef!" was featured at Burrow Press as part of their celebration of nonfiction and on the radio program and podcast Functionally Literate--Creative Nonfiction Editor Susan Fallows said it was, “Unlike anything I had ever read.” His work has been shared at the famed Poetry Foundation and read all across the Midwest.

Magoon studied under author Kathleen Rooney at Roosevelt University where he earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing, along with a Credential in the Teaching of Writing, and earned his B.A. in English from the University of Iowa. He makes home in the Windy City with a wife that's far too pretty and their bulldog, Kinnick. Follow him on Twitter @MarkPMagoon and on his website www.markmagoon.com.
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more