V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of AmericaâÂÂs 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. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc. (2010), a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Life
She graduated from University of Massachusetts, Boston, summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.
She has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, Orion, The Hudson Review, Ecotone, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, Field, The New England Review, Narrative, The Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Plume', ZYZZYVA, and Fourth Genre.
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.
Awards
Works
- âÂÂAnimals & Instruments,â Narrative, Spring 2022.
- âÂÂA Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye,â Plume, issue 120, August 2021.
- âÂÂSome Say,â Ecotone no. 28, Spring 2020.
- âÂÂElegy for Estrogen,â Ecotone, no. 27, spring/summer 2019.
- âÂÂOrts & Slarts,â Tin House online, May 2019.
- The Village Voice, National Poetry Month Feature, 21 April 2015.
- âÂÂLight Speaking: Notes on Poetry and Photography.â Poetry, vol. 202, no. 2, May 2013.
- âÂÂNulla Dies Sine Linea.â Poetry, vol. 200, no. 1, Apr. 2012.
- âÂÂBlood Memory.â Poetry, vol. 195, no. 4, Jan. 2010.
- âÂÂSeven Penitential Psalms.â Poetry, vol. 187, no. 2, Nov. 2005.
- Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time. The Waywiser Press. 2014. . Pelizzon's second book of poems was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
- âÂÂMemoire on the Heliograph.â Fourth Genre, vol. 6, no. 2, 2004.
- Pelizzon's first book of poems won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
- 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.
Translation
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