Pattie McCarthy

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Pattie McCarthy
Born1971
Baltimore, MD
EducationTemple University, Philadelphia, PA
Known forPoetry
Awards2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts

Pattie McCarthy (born 1971) is an American poet and educator.

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Biography

McCarthy completed undergraduate work at Towson University and received her MA in creative writing from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1998. [1] [2]

McCarthy's poetry has been noted for its use of medieval subjects, references, and imagery, in addition to "re-visioning historical texts and re-voicing what has suffered omission from sanctioned history." [3] [4] More recent work has focused on tensions between public and private selves and day-to-day domesticities. [5] When interviewed, McCarthy has listed Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, and Anne Waldman as influential to her own work and style. [3]

External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg “Pew Fellows from Home: Patty McCarthey”, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

McCarthy teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University. She has also taught at Loyola University, Queens College of the City University of New York, and Towson University. [6]

McCarthy lives just outside of Philadelphia with her husband, poet Kevin Varrone, and three children. [7]

Awards and honors

McCarthy was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 2011. [8] [9] In 2013, she was an artist resident at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia. [2]

Works

Books of poetry

Chapbooks

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