Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett (née Zillotti, Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, medievalist, and linguist.^[1]

She grew up in northern Virginia. She did her undergraduate work at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia,^[2] and graduated with a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota.^[3]

Her work has appeared in Southwest Review, Barrow Street, Rattle, River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Measure, Literary Imagination, The Dark Horse, Italian Americana, Mezzo Cammin, Linebreak, Subtropics, , , The Poetry Foundation, The Writer's Almanac, and many other venues in print and online, as well as an assortment of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2018.^[4] She has been a several-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee; a finalist for the 2009 Morton Marr Prize, the 2010 anthology, and the 2011 and 2016 Able Muse Book Prize; and a winner of the , the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, and the Richard Wilbur Award. Her third book, Mid Evil, is the Wilbur Award winner and has been published by the University of Evansville Press.^[5]

She has worked as a writing teacher and master indexer^[6] for the Minnesota Legislature, where she has served in the state Office of the Revisor of Statutes for 35 years.^[7] She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.^[8][9]

Awards[]

Works[]

Sample poems[]

• "Concourse", 32 Poems, Fall/Winter 2016
• "Prayer Concerning the New, More 'Accurate' Translation of Certain Prayers", Rattle, April 26, 2017; The Best American Poetry 2018
• "Apophatic", Rattle, January 16, 2015
• "Before"; "Variorum", Umbrella Journal, 2008
• "Hand", Strong Verse, 10/30/2008
• "Sacred Harp Convention", Poetry Porch
• "Layover"; "Built in a Quiet Neighborhood in 1912"; "At the Urgent Care Clinic", Loch Raven, Fall 2006
• "Shrubs for the Northern Garden", Autumn Sky Poetry
• "A Meditation on Dactylic Hexameter", The Barefoot Muse

Collections[]

• [1]In Code, Able Muse Press (November 27, 2020), ISBN 9781773490533
• [2]Street View, Able Muse Press (September 11, 2017), ISBN 978-1927409909
• Mid Evil, University of Evansville Press; (January, 2015), ISBN 978-0930982744
• [3]Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter, Able Muse Press; (September, 2013), ISBN 978-1-927409-14-5
• [4]Breath Control, David Robert Books; (February 1, 2012), ISBN 9781936370627
• Dissonance, Scienter Press; (December 1, 2009), ISBN 978-0-9776960-8-6
• Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007). ISBN 978-1-58998-611-4

Essays[]

• "Blank Verse and Blinders", Shit Creek Review,
• Directory of indexing and abstracting courses and seminars, Editor Maryann Corbett, Information Today, Inc., 1998, ISBN 978-1-57387-056-6

References[]

External links[]

• "Maryann Corbett: The TNB Self-Interview". The Nervous Breakdown. June 15, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
• "Maryann Corbett". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved November 20, 2017.