Greg Wrenn

Greg Wrenn is an American poet and author who was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. He is now living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He received a BA from Harvard University in 2003 and a MFA from Washington University in St. Louis 2008. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and he has been a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University since 2010. His first book of poems, Centaur, was awarded the 2013 Brittingham Prize and was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in Spring 2013. His work has appeared in New England Review, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. In 2012, he was a recipient of the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America for his poem "Shadow Puppets."

Career

Awards

• 2012: Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America for "Shadow Puppets"
• 2013: Brittingham Prize for Centaur, selected by Terrance Hayes

Bibliography

Books

• 23rd-Century Sea: Essays (in progress)
• The Labyrinth: Poems (completed)
• Centaur (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), winner of the Brittingham Prize In Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes

Chapbook

• Off the Fire Road (Green Tower Press, 2009), winner of the 2008 Midwest Chapbook Series Award, selected by Kevin Prufer

Essays

• Prairie Schooner, “Beacons” (forthcoming)
• The Southeast Review (SEROnline), “A Spotted Eagle Ray: On Tonal Ambivalence” (forthcoming)
• Kenyon Review (KR Online), “Innocence” (forthcoming)
• Essay Daily, “Reef Album,” May 18, 2015
• AGNI Online, “ ‘Immortality on Their Faces’: The Persistence of Autobiography of Red,” March 2015
• Mudlark, “One Whale Shark Eye,” November 2014
• Poets & Writers (online feature), “Writers Recommend,” June 5, 2014
• Poetry Daily (Special Prose Feature), “The 23rd-Century Nature Poem,” May 2014
• The American Poetry Review, “The 23rd-Century Nature Poem,” May/June 2014

Poems

• The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, “Homesickness,” “Run” (forthcoming)
• Poets.org (Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day), “Island,” May 13, 2015
• The Harlequin (theharlequin.org), “Visitation,” November 2014
• The Paris-American (theparisamerican.com), “One,” June 2014
• The Southern Review, “Eclipse,” “Hosanna,” “To an Elephant Heart Plum,” Summer 2014
• Beloit Poetry Review, from “The Minotaur: An Essay in Seven Movements,” Winter 2013/2014
• AGNI, “To a Nashi Pear,” October 2013 / Issue 78
• Kenyon Review, “From a Ship’s Interior,” June 2013
• Verse Daily, “Ascent,” June 1, 2013
• The New Republic, “Homeworld,” April 2013
• cream city review, “Detainment” and “Detainment,” Fall/Winter 2012-2013
• Poets.org (Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day), “Ode, Aubade,” March 25, 2012
• Poetrysociety.org (Poetry Society of America), “Flagellation,” March 2012
• The Southern Review, “Fresco,” “Burial,” “South of Jacksonville,” “Three Attempts to Understand Suffering,” Winter 2013
• Indiana Review, “Judge,” Winter 2012
• Beloit Poetry Journal, “Ascension,” Fall 2012
• CutBank, “Before the Tribulations” Summer 2012
• The Yale Review, “Baptism,” July 2012
• Memorious, “The Storm,” “Homeric Similes in Japantown,” July 2012
• Poetrysociety.org (Poetry Society of America), “Shadow Puppets,” March 2012
• The American Poetry Review, “Retrospection in Hannibal,” “Correspondences,” November/December 2011
• Crazyhorse, “Circumcision,” Fall 2011
• FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, “Sanctuary,” Fall 2011
• New England Review, “Northwest Passage,” 2011, 32.2
• Gulf Coast, “Invocation,” “Self-Immolation,” Summer/Fall 2011
• Devil’s Lake, “Incarnation,” April 2011
• Transom, “Winter 2012,” “Flames,” March 2011
• AGNI Online, "Prayer at Ojai," "First Contact," April 2010
• Pleiades, “My Euryklea,” January 2010
• The Yale Review, “Self-Portrait as Robert Mapplethorpe,” October 2009
• Poetry Daily, “Pontiff,” March 8, 2009
• FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, “Mindfulness,” “Monogamy,” Spring 2009
• The Antioch Review, “Pontiff,” Winter 2009
• Indiana Review, “Manger,” Winter 2008
• Beloit Poetry Journal, “Centaur,” Winter 2008/09
• Colorado Review, “Interactivity,” “Lucid Spooning,” “Marriage,” Fall/Winter 2008
• The Yale Review, “Promiscuity,” October 2008
• Meridian, “Mythologies,” May 2008
• Pebble Lake Review, “Easter Snapshot,” Spring 2008
• LIT, “My Therapist’s Last Notes,” Spring 2008
• Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, “At Keats’ Grave Again,” 2008 (7)
• New Orleans Review, “Mother of Light,” 2008 (34.1)
• Verse Daily, “One of the Magi,” December 26, 2007
• Beloit Poetry Journal, “One of the Magi,” “Epithalamium,” Winter 2007/08
• Memorious, “Brother on Brother,” August 2007
• The Laurel Review, “Onto,” “Poem Found in Rothko’s Papers,” 2007 (41.2)
• Boston Review, “To the Virus, “Thomas,” “Reuben on Joseph,” “Pieta,” “The Ray,”April/May 2003
• Colorado Review, “Calligraph,” Fall 2000
• Harvard Advocate, “Looking Out of Grandmother’s Window to Find Mother’s Ferns,” “from Contents,” Spring 2000
• Grolier Poetry Prize Annual, “The Process of Revision,” “Streams,” 1999
• Harvard Advocate, “The Process of Revision,” Fall 1999

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 2014 (Scribner, 2014), edited by Terrance Hayes
• Best of the Net 2007, selected by Chad Davidson

References

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