Joanie Mackowski

Joanie V. Mackowski (born 1963 Illinois) is an American poet. She grew up in Connecticut. She graduated from Wesleyan University, the University of Washington, was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and from University of Missouri with a Ph.D. She taught at University of Cincinnati. She was an editor at Reconfigurations. Her work has appeared in Prairie schooner, Antioch Review, and Best American Poetry 2007. Here's wildness and art, in right proportion: the wildness is surprise without swagger; the art is graceful and mostly disappearing, and otherwise a little extravagant. As in the case of jugglery (another of Joanie Mackowski's mastered arts), loopiness is nothing without the catch. Dropped clubs, flat cakes, flat...