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Mark Irwin
Portrait of Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin is the author of eleven collections of poetry—including Joyful Orphan (University of Nevada Press, forthcoming 2023) and American Urn: Selected Poems (1987–2014) (Ashland Poetry Press, 2015)—and the essay collection Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry (Peter Lang, 2017). His poetry and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, AGNIHarper’s, The Nation, and elsewhere. He has received, among other honors, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He is professor of creative writing at University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles and the mountains of rural Colorado. Read a 2013 interview with Mark Irwin. (updated 10/2022)

Read Monika Cassel’s review of Irwin’s “Vertigo” in the folio “AGNI 96 Reviews AGNI 96

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Vertigo
AGNI 96 Print Only
Poetry
Evening
AGNI 78 Print Only
Poetry
Blueprint for Civilization Sometimes Lost in Frivolous Detail
AGNI 55 Print Only
Poetry
Table of Contents
AGNI 68 Print Only
Poetry
Tell Me
AGNI 68 Print Only
Poetry
A Tiny Cage,
AGNI 78 Print Only
Poetry
Heart
AGNI 36 Print Only
Poetry
On Language
AGNI 33 Print Only
Poetry
Bucharest, 1981
AGNI 33 Print Only
Poetry
As Long As
AGNI 31 and 32 Print Only
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