V. Penelope Pelizzon

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 America’s 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.

V. Penelope Pelizzon
Alma mater
Genre
  • Poem
  • translated poem
Notable awardsNorma Farber First Book
2001 Nostos

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.[1][2]

Her work has appeared in Poetry,[3] Orion,[4] The Hudson Review, Ecotone,[5] 32 Poems,[6] The Kenyon Review,[7] Field, The New England Review, Narrative,[8] The Harvard Review,[9] The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review,[10] Plume[11], ZYZZYVA,[12] and Fourth Genre.

She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.[13]

Awards
  • 2021 Editor's Choice Selection for the Quarterly West Chapbook Award,[14] for Of Vinegar Of Pearl
  • 2019 Hawthornden Residency Fellowship for poetry
  • 2012 The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship[15]
  • 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award for Human Field[16]
  • 2008 Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship[17]
  • 2003 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
  • 2001 Norma Farber First Book Award, for Nostos, by Poetry Society of America[18]
  • 1999 Hollis Summers Prize[19]
  • The Kenneth Rexroth Translation Award (for Umberto Saba's poems from Italian)
  • 1997 The 92nd Street Y's “Discovery”/ The Nation Award

Works
  • “Animals & Instruments,” Narrative, Spring 2022.
  • “A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye,” Plume, issue 120, August 2021.
  • “Some Say,” Ecotone no. 28, Spring 2020.
  • “Elegy for Estrogen,” Ecotone, no. 27, spring/summer 2019.
  • “Orts & Slarts,” Tin House online, May 2019.
  • The Village Voice, National Poetry Month Feature, 21 April 2015.
  • “Light Speaking: Notes on Poetry and Photography.” Poetry, vol. 202, no. 2, May 2013.
  • “Nulla Dies Sine Linea.” Poetry, vol. 200, no. 1, Apr. 2012.
  • “Blood Memory.” Poetry, vol. 195, no. 4, Jan. 2010.
  • “Seven Penitential Psalms.” Poetry, vol. 187, no. 2, Nov. 2005.
  • "Clever and Poor". poemhunter. 20 January 2003.
  • "The Monongahela Book of Hours". Language Exchange. 2003.
  • Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time. The Waywiser Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-904130-60-4.[20] Pelizzon's second book of poems was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
  • “Memoire on the Heliograph.” Fourth Genre, vol. 6, no. 2, 2004.
  • Nostos. Ohio University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8214-1298-5. Pelizzon's first book of poems won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.[21]
  • Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives. Ohio State University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0814292150. 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.[22]

Translation

References
  1. "Department of English | UConn | Pelizzon, Penelope". english.uconn.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-11-29.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Poetry". Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  4. "Orion Magazine - Autumn 2021". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  5. Pelizzon, V. Penelope (2020-02-14). "Some Say". Ecotone. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  6. "V. Penelope Pelizzon | 32 Poems Magazine". 32poems.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  7. "The Kenyon Review". www.kenyonreview.org. Archived from the original on 2005-12-25.
  8. Pelizzon, V. Penelope (2021-11-23). "Animals & Instruments by V. Penelope Pelizzon". www.narrativemagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  9. "V. Penelope Pelizzon – Harvard Review". harvardreview.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  10. "TMR: Winter 2006". www.missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
  11. "Pelizzon V. Penelope, Author at Plume". Plume. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  12. "ZYZZYVA: Editor's Note". www.zyzzyva.org. Archived from the original on 2006-02-14.
  13. "TMR: The Ladder". www.missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  14. Submittable. "Quarterly West - Purchase: Of Vinegar Of Pearl by Penelope Pelizzon'". quarterlywest.submittable.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  15. "Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship".
  16. www.bibliopolis.com. "HUMAN FIELD by V. Penelope Pelizzon on Oak Knoll". Oak Knoll. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  17. "Lannan Foundation - Past Residents". www.lannan.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
  18. "V. Penelope Pelizzon · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press".
  19. "Hollis Summers Poetry Prize · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press". www.ohioswallow.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  20. "Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time – The Waywiser Press". waywiser-press.com. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  21. Sandra Miller (March 22, 2000). "Article: Nostos.(Review)". Chicago Review. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
  22. David M. Earle (2011). "Article: Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (review)". The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 2 (2): 259–265. doi:10.5325/jmodeperistud.2.2.0259.
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