2022 was a little bit of a bonkers year–after 15 years at Virginia Tech, I took a new job as a professor and MFA program director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and moved my whole family halfway across the country. I had taught at UW-Madison 20 years before, as the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative …
2022 is shaping up to be a weird and liminal pandemic year, but I’m thrilled that my newest book Useful Junk is due out on April 5th from BOA Editions. You can pre-order it here from BOA directly, or from your local bookseller, and if you want a review copy, you can contact Gena Hartman at BOA! It will also …
My big news is that I have a new book! Holy Moly Carry Me is due out on September 11 of this year from BOA Editions! If you pre-ordered the book through BOA directly, it shipped in mid-July, so it should start showing up in mailboxes any day now. For a review or exam copy, contact Ron Martin-Dent at BOA. …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and 2016 has been a long, weird, intriguing and intense year.
I’ve been writing poems on gun culture and gun violence–you can read (and hear me read) “Dollar General” over at the Oxford American website. I was at the incredible and idyllic MacDowell Colony for 2 weeks in June, holed up in a …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I was on sabbatical in Northern Ireland for a big chunk of last year as the 2014-15 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast, where I taught a post-graduate module to their amazing MA and PhD students on Documentary & Investigative …
Fall’s nearly here, VT is in session again, and the first reviews of Copia are starting to roll in. I got a star (a star!) from Publishers Weekly, which says “Meitner…delivers a collection that bursts with American abundance…With rich language and an eye for the texture of common objects….Meitner has a stake in personal exploration that brings intimacy and despair …
After the longest winter of polar vortexes ever, the daffodils are starting to come up here in Virginia. I just got back from AWP 2014 in Seattle, where I got to participate in a terrific panel (“Daydreaming at the Mini-Mart”), a fantabulous on-site reading (for Anhinga Press’s 40th Birthday), and an amazing off-site reading (for Muzzle Magazine & Vinyl Poetry). …