Geoffrey Brock

Assistant Professor
(M.F.A. University of Florida,
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania)

Teaching Interests:

Poetry writing, prosody, literary translation, modern Italian poetry, verse novels.

Selected Publications:

Poetry: Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee 2005). Poems in journals including: Poetry, Paris Review, Southern Review, Hudson Review, New England Review, Sewanee Review, New Letters, Subtropics, Literary Imagination, PN Review, etc. Poems in anthologies including: Best American Poetry 2007, Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, Verse Daily, From the Fishouse: An Audio Archive of Emerging Poets, Poetry Calendar 2007& 2008, Writing Poems, etc

Translations: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (FSG 2009), Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (NYRB 2008), Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan (Knopf 2007), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco (Harcourt 2005), K. by Roberto Calasso (Knopf 2005), Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 by Cesare Pavese (Copper Canyon 2002). Translations in journals including: Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, TriQuarterly, Five Points, New England Review, Two Lines, American Poet, Yale Italian Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, etc.

Selected Awards:

John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine (2006), Lewis Galantière Translation Award from the ATA (2006), Guggenheim Fellowship (2005-2006), Artist Project Grant in Poetry from the Arizona Commission on the Arts (2005), The New Criterion Poetry Prize (2004), NEA Poetry Fellowship (2003), PEN Center USA Translation Award (2003), Lois Roth Translation Award from the MLA (2003), Stegner Fellowship (2002-2004), Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society (2001), Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Florida Arts Council (2000), Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets (1999).