V. Penelope Pelizzon

V. Penelope Pelizzon
Alma mater
Writing career
Genres
  • Poem
  • translated poem
Notable awardsNorma Farber First Book
2001 Nostos

V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize, awarded by Ohio University Press, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (2014), was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her third, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye (2024), was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year and one of Literary Hub's "Favorite Poetry Collections" of 2024. She is co-author of Tabloid, Inc. (2010), a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is an editor at Waywiser Books and a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Education

Pelizzon graduated from University of Massachusetts, Boston, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.

Academic career

Pelizzon has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.[1][2]

Writing

Her work has appeared in Poetry,[3] Orion,[4] The Hudson Review, Ecotone,[5] 32 Poems,[6] The Kenyon Review,[7] Field, The New England Review, Narrative,[8] The Harvard Review,[9] The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review,[10] Plume[11], ZYZZYVA,[12] and Fourth Genre.

Personal life

She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.[13]

Awards and recognition

Works

Books

  • A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. ISBN 9780822967217
  • Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time. The Waywiser Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-904130-60-4
  • Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives. Ohio State University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0814292150. Pelizzon and Nancy M. West discuss tabloid newspapers, especially those of the late 1920s and early 1930s, using a combination of narrative and film theory.[21]
  • Nostos. Ohio University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8214-1298-5.[22]

Magazine and journal publications

  • "Animals & Instruments", Narrative, Spring 2022.
  • "A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye", Plume, issue 120, August 2021.
  • "Some Say", Ecotone no. 28, Spring 2020.
  • "Elegy for Estrogen", Ecotone, no. 27, spring/summer 2019.
  • "Orts & Slarts", Tin House online, May 2019.
  • The Village Voice, National Poetry Month Feature, 21 April 2015.
  • "Light Speaking: Notes on Poetry and Photography", Poetry, vol. 202, no. 2, May 2013.
  • "Nulla Dies Sine Linea", Poetry, vol. 200, no. 1, Apr. 2012.
  • "Blood Memory", Poetry, vol. 195, no. 4, Jan. 2010.
  • "Seven Penitential Psalms", Poetry, vol. 187, no. 2, Nov. 2005.
  • "Memoire on the Heliograph", Fourth Genre, vol. 6, no. 2, 2004.
  • "Clever and Poor". poemhunter. 20 January 2003.
  • "The Monongahela Book of Hours". Language Exchange. 2003. Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-10.

Translation

  • "Runic Signature from Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles", with translator’s note, Poetry, vol.198, no. 3, June 2011.
  • Umberto Saba (1999). "two poems". The Seneca Review. 24 (1): 76–77.
  • Umberto Saba (1997–1998). "four poems". Compost. 9: 34–35.

References

  1. ↑ "Department of English | UConn | Pelizzon, Penelope". english.uconn.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-11-29.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Poetry". Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  4. ↑ "Orion Magazine - Autumn 2021". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  5. ↑ Pelizzon, V. Penelope (2020-02-14). "Some Say". Ecotone. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  6. ↑ "V. Penelope Pelizzon | 32 Poems Magazine". 32poems.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  7. ↑ "The Kenyon Review". www.kenyonreview.org. Archived from the original on 2005-12-25.
  8. ↑ Pelizzon, V. Penelope (2021-11-23). "Animals & Instruments by V. Penelope Pelizzon". www.narrativemagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  9. ↑ "V. Penelope Pelizzon – Harvard Review". harvardreview.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  10. ↑ "TMR: Winter 2006". www.missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
  11. ↑ "Pelizzon V. Penelope, Author at Plume". Plume. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  12. ↑ "ZYZZYVA: Editor's Note". www.zyzzyva.org. Archived from the original on 2006-02-14.
  13. ↑ "TMR: The Ladder". www.missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  14. ↑ "Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. April 14, 2026. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  15. ↑ Submittable. "Quarterly West - Purchase: Of Vinegar Of Pearl by Penelope Pelizzon'". quarterlywest.submittable.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  16. ↑ "Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship".
  17. ↑ www.bibliopolis.com. "HUMAN FIELD by V. Penelope Pelizzon on Oak Knoll". Oak Knoll. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  18. ↑ "Lannan Foundation - Past Residents". www.lannan.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
  19. ↑ "V. Penelope Pelizzon · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press".
  20. ↑ "Hollis Summers Poetry Prize · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press". www.ohioswallow.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  21. ↑ David M. Earle (2011). "Article: Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (review)". The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 2 (2): 259–265. doi:10.5325/jmodeperistud.2.2.0259.
  22. ↑ Sandra Miller (March 22, 2000). "Article: Nostos.(Review)". Chicago Review. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
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