Mark Wunderlich

Mark Wunderlich ) (1968 – ) is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He studied English and German literature at the University of Wisconsin and was a graduate student at Columbia University from which he received an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree.

Mark Wunderlich has published two collections of poetry, most recently Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf Press, 2004). He worked on his first book, The Anchorage, as his MFA thesis at Columbia University and finished it while living in Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[1] There he was friends with the poet Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)[1].

Life

Wunderlich has published individual poems, essays, reviews and interviews in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Fence and AGNI.^[2] Wunderlich has taught at Stanford, San Francisco State University, Ohio University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. Since 2004, he has been Professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont,^[3] and lives in New York's Hudson River Valley.

Books

• Voluntary Servitude. Graywolf Press. 2004. ISBN 9781555974084. 
• The Anchorage. University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. ISBN 9781558492004. http://books.google.com/?id=bhoqv7_vTLYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mark+Wunderlich#PPP1,M1. 

Honors and awards

• The Anchorage (1999), which won the Lambda Literary Award.
• two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown^[4]
• The Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
• the Writers at Work Fellowship

Reviews

Poetry magazine wrote,

"Mark Wunderlich's first book, The Anchorage, is a vigorous, necessary attempt to make our words catch up with our changing world: 'This is America--beetles clustered with the harvest, dust roads trundling off at perfect angles, and signs proclaiming unbearable roadside attractions.' The poems are extravagantly -- perhaps I should say fiercely -- autobiographical."^[5]

References

1. ^ "#12 - Mark Wunderlich", December 25, 2008, Keith, First Book Interviews
2. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Mark-Wunderlich.html
3. ^ http://www.bennington.edu/go/faculty-other-work/mark-wunderlich-other-works
4. ^ http://www.fawc.org/news/2006/06sum_fall_wrksps_events.shtml
5. ^ F.D. REEVE (July 1, 2000). "The Anchorage.(Review)". Poetry. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-63583671.html. 

External links

• "#12 - Mark Wunderlich", December 25, 2008, Keith, First Book Interviews
• "The Glorious Thing: Jorie Graham and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation". American Poet. 09/1996. http://www.joriegraham.com/wunderlich_1996. 
• Poem: Gebet eines Ehemannes (A Husband's Prayer)

Poems in Periodicals

• "Difficult Body", poets.org
• "Once I Walked Out", thethepoetry.com
• "The Trick; Difficult Body". Cortland Review. November 1998. http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/wunderkind5.htm. 
• "From a Vacant House". Boston Review. October/November 1998. http://bostonreview.net/BR23.5/Wunderlich.html. 
• "Seen". Ploughshares. Winter 1999-00. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4766. ^{[dead link][dead link]}
• Coyote, with Mange. March 2009. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=183187. ; reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2010, guest editor Amy Gerstler, series editor David Lehman
• The Corn Baby. March 2009. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=183207. 
• Waumandee. March 2009. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=183197. 

Criticism

• "Remembering Stanley Kunitz". Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=178195. 
• "Openhearted: Stanley Kunitz and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation". poets.org. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15893. 

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