Matthew Shenoda

Matthew Shenoda is an American poet.

Life

Matthew Shenoda's poems and writings have appeared in a variety of newspapers, journals, radio programs and anthologies.

He has taught extensively in the fields of Ethnic Studies and Creative Writing and is currently Assistant Provost for Equity & Diversity and Professor in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts.^[1] He lives in Los Angeles.

Awards

• 2006 American Book Award
• Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes
• California Arts Council Fellowship
• Lannan Foundation Residency ^[2]
• Hala Maksoud Award for Emerging Voice

Works

• Somewhere Else. Coffee House Press. 2005. ISBN 9781566891738. http://books.google.com/books?id=C6ZvtEZhipIC&dq=Matthew+Shenoda&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=nDpxH9huUx&sig=9p3mDuMZQmhhchdUt3vfVil1h4o&hl=en&ei=qVviSvD0NYaoNubEiLYB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone. BOA Editions. 2009. ISBN 9781934414279. 

Anthologies

• Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, ed (2003). "Enough". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 9781560255390. http://books.google.com/books?id=sdxJOtDmPywC&pg=PA209&dq=Matthew+Shenoda&ei=YlziSoD3HYGyNNjyyPsL#v=onepage&q=Matthew%20Shenoda&f=false. 
• Hayan Charara, ed (2008). "Relics". Inclined to speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781557288677. http://books.google.com/books?id=Hl_gaGoumogC&pg=PA286&dq=Matthew+Shenoda&ei=YlziSoD3HYGyNNjyyPsL#v=onepage&q=Matthew%20Shenoda&f=false. 
• Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman, Diana García, ed (2009). Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816527938. 

• Camille T. Dungy, Matt O'Donnell, Jeffrey Thomson, ed (2009). From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books. ISBN 0892553480. 

Reviews

Matthew Shenoda's Somewhere Else is today's poetry--filled with the immediacy of contemporary concerns of the diasporic identity. As Shenoda brings alive the images of the ancient, pre-Islamic Coptic community of Egypt and transports them into the American landscape and consciousness, one can see him challenging the political rhetoric of a world divided into "us" and "them."^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/calarts_appoints_matthew_shenoda_new_diversity_position
2. ^ http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/matthew-shenoda/
3. ^ Nita N. Kumar (June 22, 2008). "Matthew Shenoda. Somewhere Else.(Book review)". African American Review. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-199599275/matthew-shenoda-somewhere-else.html. 

External links

• "Author's website"
• "For Charles Mingus & That Ever-Living “Love Chant”", Fishouse

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