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Joshua Mehigan

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Website

http://www.joshuamehigan.net

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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Clare, Orwell, Borges, Bowers, Brooks ...more

Member Since

November 2007

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Joshua Mehigan's first book, The Optimist (Ohio UP, 2004), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His second book, Accepting the Disaster, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His poems have been featured in many periodicals, including Poetry, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Ploughshares, on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac, and in anthologies such as Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2008) and Bright Wings (Columbia UP, 2009). He was the recipient, in 2011, of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 303 ratings · 55 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance by Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bernardo Wade (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 126 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accepting the Disaster: Poems 3.98 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Optimist 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi (Editor), J.D. McClatchy (Foreword by), Craig Arnold (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krachkultur 20/2020 by Martin Brinkmann (Editor), Alexander Behrmann (Editor), Marcel Beyer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Magazine Volume 201, Number 1, October 2012 by Christian Wiman (Editor), Joshua Mehigan (Goodreads Author), Campbell McGrath really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry February 2010 by Martha Zweig, Joshua Mehigan (Goodreads Author), Spencer Reece 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Together. Drei amerikanische Dichter by Edgar Bowers, Dick Davis, Timothy Steele 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars