ABOUTAnn Keniston is a poet, scholar, and essayist interested in the overlap between these genres. She is the author of two poetry collections, Somatic (Terrapin 2020) and The Caution of Human Gestures (Wordtech 2005), and a chapbook, November Wasps: Elegies (Finishing Line 2013). She is also the author of three scholarly studies of post-1945 North American poetry, most recently Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry (Palgrave, 2023), and coeditor of several collections, including The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland 2012) and The News from Poems: Essays on the 21st-Century Poetry of Engagement (Michigan 2016) . A recipient of numerous Nevada Arts Council fellowships and grants in poetry as well as fellowships from Sierra Arts (Reno) and the Somerville (MA) Arts Council, she has held residencies at the Studio Ginestrelli (Italy), the CAMAC Arts Center (France), the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Arizona State University's Humanities Institute, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in over thirty journals, including Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, and Literary Imagination; her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre and Five Points. A professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches poetry workshops and literature classes, she lives in Reno.
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SELECTED BOOKS
"These are startling, beautiful poems, palpable with intelligence and the long reach of their author’s compassion."
—Lee Upton |
"With its lucid, compelling approach to the figures and forms of the economic present, Economies of Scale offers an essential account of contemporary poetry’s reflections on the logics of financialization."
--Margaret Ronda |
"[W]hat may be the definitive representation of the 21st century's troubled first decade. This brilliant anthology insists on the importance of public poetry."
—Michael Davidson |