Portrait of Mark Irwin

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:

Vertigo

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Evening

Poetry by Mark Irwin

A Tiny Cage,

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Tell Me

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Table of Contents

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Blueprint for Civilization Sometimes Lost in Frivolous Detail

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Tock

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Heart

Poetry by Mark Irwin

On Language

Poetry by Mark Irwin

Bucharest, 1981

Poetry by Mark Irwin

As Long As

Poetry by Mark Irwin
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