Pattie McCarthy

Pattie McCarthy
Born1971
Baltimore, MD
EducationTemple University, Philadelphia, PA
Known forPoetry
Awards2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts

Pattie McCarthy (born 1971) is an American poet and educator.

Biography[edit]

McCarthy completed undergraduate work at Towson University and received her MA in creative writing from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1998.[1][2]

McCarthy's poetry has been noted for its use of medieval subjects, references, and imagery, in addition to "re-visioning historical texts and re-voicing what has suffered omission from sanctioned history."[3][4] More recent work has focused on tensions between public and private selves and day-to-day domesticities.[5] When interviewed, McCarthy has listed Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, and Anne Waldman as influential to her own work and style.[3]

External videos
video icon “Pew Fellows from Home: Patty McCarthey”, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

McCarthy teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University. She has also taught at Loyola University, Queens College of the City University of New York, and Towson University.[6]

McCarthy lives just outside of Philadelphia with her husband, poet Kevin Varrone, and three children.[7]

Awards and honors[edit]

McCarthy was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 2011.[8][9] In 2013, she was an artist resident at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia.[2]

Works[edit]

Books of poetry[edit]

  • bk of (h)rs (Apogee Press, 2002) ISBN 9780966993776 OCLC 49612046
  • Verso (Apogee Press, 2004) ISBN 9780974468747 OCLC 56663600
  • Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (Apogee Press, 2010) ISBN 9780978766764 OCLC 759790659
  • Marybones (Apogee Press, 2012) ISBN 9780985100735 OCLC 826737840
  • Nulls (Horse Less Press, 2014) ISBN 9780982989678 OCLC 876350593
  • Quiet Book (Apogee Press, 2016) ISBN 9780985100766 OCLC 953678346
  • Wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021) ISBN 9781733137522 OCLC 1230218946

Chapbooks[edit]

  • Octaves (ixnay press, 1998) OCLC 41899445
  • Choragus (Potes & Poets Press, 1998) ISBN 9780937013847 OCLC 41162890
  • alibi (that is : elsewhere) (Duration Press, 2003)
  • L&O (Little Red Leaves Press, 2011)
  • Domestic Cryptography Survey II (Dusie Kollektiv, 2013)
  • scenes from the lives of my parents (Bloof Books, 2013) OCLC 881183162
  • wifthing (WinteRed Press, 2014)
  • Nova Scotia (Dusie Kollektiv, 2014)
  • fifteen genre scenes (eth press, 2014)
  • worrywort [with Jenn McCreary] (Little Red Leaves Press, 2014) OCLC 925832043
  • x y z && (Ahsahta Press, 2015)
  • margerykempething (eth press, 2017)
  • qweyne wifthing (eth press, 2017)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mclennan, Rob (2007-09-24). "12 or 20 questions: with Pattie McCarthy". 12 or 20 questions. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  2. ^ a b "Pattie McCarthy: 2011 Pew Fellow". The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 2013-10-27. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  3. ^ a b Mclennan, Rob (2014-07-02). "TtD supplement #3: eight questions for Pattie McCarthy". Touch the Donkey: A Small Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  4. ^ Morrison, Rusty (2003-12-01). "Poetry Microreviews: December 2003/January 2004". Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum. ISSN 0734-2306.
  5. ^ "Christy Davids with Pattie McCarthy". The Conversant. December 2015. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  6. ^ "poet: Pattie McCarthy". poets.org. 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  7. ^ "Poetry: Pattie McCarthy - from Marybones". OmniVerse.
  8. ^ Staff, Harriet. "Pew Fellowships in the Arts go to CAConrad and Pattie McCarthy". Poetry Foundation.
  9. ^ Hartig, Jean (November–December 2011). "Pew Center for Arts & Heritage: Pew Fellowships in the Arts". Poets & Writers Magazine.