Mary Koncel

Mary Koncel is an American poet who has published three books of poetry. She is known for writing prose poetry.

Biography

Koncel was born and raised in Chicago and holds a BFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and MFA in English from MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Worthington, Massachusetts. Koncel teaches writing at Smith College, and is a writing consultant to Boston's Department of Public Health in the AIDS Bureau. Koncel is known for prose poetry that is a combination of humor and visual images.

Koncel is also involved with the American Wild Horse Campaign, a group that finds homes for horses and burros on public lands in the United States.

Grants and awards

• 1996 - Poetry Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
• Finalist, the Norma Farber First Book Award

Bibliography

Books

• Closer to the Day (1999) - Quale Press
• You Can Tell The Horse Anything
• The Last Blonde - Hedgerow Books (2017)

Anthologies

• The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry
• No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (edited by Ray Gonzalez)
• The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal
• Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry
• Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writing on Cars and on the Road

Journal publications

• The Massachusetts Review
• The Journal
• The Illinois Review
• key satch(el)
• Denver Quarterly
• The Prose Poem: An International Journal

References