A Tiny Cage,

Mark Irwin is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Once When Green (UMass Press, 2025), Joyful Orphan (University of Nevada Press, 2023), Shimmer (Itasca Books, 2020), American Urn: Selected Poems, 1987-2014 (Ashland Poetry Press, 2015), Tall If (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2008), and Bright Hunger (Boa Editions, 2004). His poetry and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, AGNI, Harper’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. His translation of Zanzibar: Selected Poems & Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (with an afterword by Alain Borer) will appear in September from Unbound Editions. 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”