POET
Ange Mlinko
BIOGRAPHY
Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005) which was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004, and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. She was born in Philadelphia, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She has lived and worked in Providence, Boston, and Morocco. She has taught poetry at Brown, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Her poems are about urban life, about language and its failings, about the things we see and do not see. She is often compared to Frank O’Hara. The New Yorker praised her “unique sense of humor and mystery.”
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.AUDIO
Poetry Off the Shelf
Romantic or Plain Erotic
Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.
The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Something Has Come Between Us!
Is simile a species of metaphor? And other catchy concepts.
We Don't Have Cold Feet
The editors discuss poems from Katia Kapovich, Lucia Perillo, Don Paterson and more. Plus, Ange Mlinko on poetry and motherhood.
Poetry Radio Project
Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner: Ange Mlinko
Patner talks with poet and critic Ange Mlinko who last month was named winner of the third Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. A production of WFMT Radio Chicago and wfmt.com.
ARTICLES BY ANGE MLINKO
"Information, Thy Nemesis is Reverie"
How Devin Johnston and Linda Gregg chase the Romantic.
Altman, Keillor, and the Suicide Poet Girl
Our reviewer hoped for a reflection of her adolescent poet-self in A Prairie Home Companion. She was bummed.
As If Nature Talked Back To Me
A Notebook.
Craft Vs. Conscience
How the Vietnam War destroyed the friendship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The Windhover”
A rapturous re-reading of the poet's love poem to life.
The Eighties, Glory Of
Fourth in a series of eight manifestos.
