Joy Katz Explained

Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]

She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently All You Do Is Perceive, a National Poetry Series finalist (Four Way Books, 2013), The Garden Room (Tupelo Press, 2006), and Fabulae (Southern Illinois University, 2002). Her work appears in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast,^[2] Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book Review,^[3] Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner.^[4] Katz was raised in Buffalo; Philadelphia; Camden, Maine; and Cincinnati. She earned a B.S. at Ohio State University, an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, and she held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Katz is an editor-at-large at Pleiades.^[5] She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005,^[6] and lives in Pittsburgh.^{[7] [8]}

Honors and awards

• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry
• 2005 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize^[9]
• 2001 Crab Orchard Award
• Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University
• Nadja Aisenberg Fellow at the MacDowell Colony

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

• Book: Fabulae . Southern Illinois University Press. 2002. registration . Joy Katz. . 978-0-8093-2444-6 .

Chapbooks

• Book: The Garden Room . Tupelo Press. 2006. 978-1-932195-36-1 .

Anthology publications

• Book: The Best American Poetry . Yusef Komunyakaa . David Lehman. Simon & Schuster. 2003. 978-0-7432-0387-6. registration.
• Book: The New Young American Poets. Kevin Prufer. Southern Illinois University Press. 2000. 978-0-8093-2308-1 .

Anthologies edited

• Book: Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems . Joy Katz . Kevin Prufer. University of Illinois Press. 2007. 978-0-252-07287-1. registration.

Review

Don't expect the narratives in Joy Katz's first book to resolve themselves into tidy morals. There's nothing Aesopian about Fabulae. A glance at my Latin dictionary suggests that a more apt translation of the title is "myths," for these unsettling poems conceal and reveal insights more spiritual and unpredictable than aphoristic. They resist easy expectations.^[10]

External links

• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > A desk chai by Joy Katz
• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > Color of the walls by Joy Katz
• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > How I feel about topiary by Joy Katz

Notes and References

1. http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows
2. Web site: Rescue Song . Joy Katz . Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 24.2 . 2012-06-27.
3. News: The New York Times - Search . The New York Times . City . Room.
4. Web site: Project MUSE - Login . 2022-02-07 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055018/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv079%2F79.3katz.pdf . dead .
5. Web site: School of English and Philosophy.
6. News: Joy Katz and Rob Handel . The New York Times. May 29, 2005 .
7. Web site: Joy Katz.
8. Web site: Tupelo Press - Joy Katz . 2009-07-15 . 2008-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080512223707/http://www.tupelopress.org/katz.shtml . dead .
9. Web site: Tupelo Press > Joy Katz Author Page . 2010-03-14 . 2011-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113620/http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/katz . dead .
10. Review – Fabulae, by Joy Katz. SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS. Blackbird. Fall 2003 .