Emily Rosko Explained

Emily Rosko (born 1979) is an American poet and is on the faculty of the College of Charleston. She is the author of Raw Goods Inventory (2006) and Prop Rockery (2012) poetry collections, both of which have won awards.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Career

Rosko received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Purdue University where she studied with Marianne Boruch and Donald Platt. She earned her M.F.A at Cornell University under the mentorship of Alice Fulton, Ken McClane, Phyllis Janowitz, and Deborah Tall. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing working with Scott Cairns, Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos at the University of Missouri.

She taught previously as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and she is now Associate Professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

Her first book Raw Goods Inventory won the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and her second book Prop Rockery was chosen by Natasha Saje for the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in New Orleans Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New American Writing, The Denver Quarterly, and West Branch. Rosko is the poetry editor for Crazyhorse.^[4]

Awards and fellowships

National prizes

• Akron Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, University of Akron Press, 2011.
• Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University, 2007.
• Iowa Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, The University of Iowa Press, 2005.
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2004, 2006, 2011, and 2013.
• AWP Intro Journals Project Award, 2002.

Fellowships

• Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2003–2005.
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, Poetry, 2002.
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2001–2003.

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Rosko, Emily. Prop Rockery. Akron University Press. 2012. 978-1-937378-15-8.
• Book: Rosko, Emily. Raw Goods Inventory. Iowa University Press. 2006. 9780877459804. registration.

Edited collections

• Book: A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Iowa University Press. 2011. 9781609380540. Rosko. Emily. Vander Zee. Anton.

Essays

• "The Activated Voice." The Working Poet II: Fifty Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology. Ed. Scott Minar. DuBoos, PA: Mammoth Books (2014). 109-16. Print.
• "Recovery Project: On Visiting Rites by Phyllis Janowitz." Octopus Magazine 16. n. pg. Web. 1 Jan. 2014.
• "Mapping the Line." A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (2011). 24-33.
• "The Complaint." Poets on Teaching. Joshua Marie Wilkinson, ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (Fall 2010). 135-37.

Further reading

• Web site: Interview with Emily Rosko. "Out of Our Minds." Cupertino, CA. 27 June 2012. Radio and Podcast.
• Web site: Video Reading with Emily Rosko. The Volta. Issue #26. 22 June 2012. Video.
• Web site: Emily Rosko draws poetic inspiration from the Bard. Curran. Erica Jackson. Charleston City Paper. 22 Feb. 2012. Article.
• Interviewed by J. Robert Lennon. Writers at Cornell Series. Ithaca, NY. 5 Apr. 2007. Podcast.
• Vox Magazine. Special Feature: "30 Under 30." Columbia, MO. 2007. Video and article.
• Interviewed by Stacey Balkun. The California Journal of Women Writers. 16 Apr. 2014. Web.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty and Staff . College of Charleston . April 8, 2017.
2. Web site: Poetry Foundation.
3. Web site: Academy of American Poets.
4. Web site: Masthead . Crazy Horse . April 7, 2017.