Faculty & Staff : Joyelle McSweeney

Joyelle McSweeney's first book, The Red Bird, won the first Fence Modern Poets Series Prize and was published in 2002 by FenceBooks/Saturnalia Books. Her second book, The Commandrine and Other Poems, is forthcoming from Fence in Fall 2004. She earned her BA from Harvard and holds an MPhil in English Studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Brief reviews of hers have appeared in The Boston Review and she is now a staff critic for The Constant Critic. She has written book reviews for The Constant Critic as well as for The Boston Review, Crossroads, Perihelion, Thumbscrew, and Oxford Poetry.

Books authored

The Commandrine and Other Poems. New York: Fence Books, 2004.

The Red Bird. New York: FenceBooks/Saturnalia Books, 2002. (Poems)

 

Poems

"Excerpt from Nylund (the Sarcographer)." Typo Magazine 5.

"Architectural Digest." Backwards City I.1 (2004).

"The Great White Fleet." Backwards City I.1 (2004).

"What She Said in Her Sleep." The Spoon River Poetry Review XXIX.2 (2004).

"Youth Idiom." Poetry Daily (May 22, 2004).

"Youth Idiom." Another Chicago Magazine 43 (2004).

"Phil Spectre, or, Philadelphia." Octopus Magazine 3 (2004).

"Double Orpheus." Octopus Magazine 3 (2004).

"Demos." The Los Angeles Review 1 (2004).

"Battle Scene." The Los Angeles Review 1 (2004).

"The Wind Domes." La Petite Zine 15 (2004).

"Duet." The Canary 3 (2004).

"Piece for Rained-Out Ampitheatre." The Canary 3 (2004).

"The Born Fetus." The Colorado Review XXXI.I (2004).

"The Kosher Undine." Circumference 1 (2004).

"The Cockatoos Morose." The Denver Quarterly 38.2 (2003).

"Click Track." Gulf Coast 16.1 (2003).

"The Cock and Kettle." The Konundrum Engine Literary Review (2003).

"Spectacular Attacks." (Collaboration with Kevin Cornell) Born Magazine (2003).

"Scenes from 'The Commandrine.'" Opoponax 2 (2003).

"Bureau of." Another Chicago Magazine 42 (2003).

"Life of Lincoln." Insurance 3 (2003).

"A Caper." GutCult 1.2 (2003).

"Concordia." Typo 1 (2003).

"Bugs Bunny, or the Mirror that Hid a Little Camera." canwehaveourballback 15 (2003).

"Crooner." Canary River Review 1 (2002).

"Which Stand for Nothing but Their Own Striking Presence." Pool 1 (2002).

"What I Eat is a Prayer" and "The Air Sign." Monkey Puzzle 1 (2002).

"At the Dismaying Temple." Lungfull! 12 (2002).

"Animal Instruction." Crowd 2 (2002).

"Stereo." Fence 5.1 (2002).

Various poems. Bridge 1.4 (2002).

"Toy Bed" and "Developed Nation." Perihelion 2.5 (2002).

"Still Life w/Influences." The Boston Review 27.1 (2002).

Three poems. Jubilat 4 (2002).

"From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase." Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (2000).

"Tea Strainer." Poetry CLXXIV.4 (1999).

"Your Cool Whip." Poetry CLXXII.3(1998).

"Wrought Iron." The May Anthologies (1998).

"Orange." Oxford Poetry X.1 (1998).