Maryann Corbett Explained

Maryann Corbett
Birth Name:	Maryann Zillotti
Birth Place:	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	College of William & Mary
Awards:	Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2009) Richard Wilbur Award (2014)

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 & 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, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, 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 Best of the Net anthology, and the 2011 and 2016 Able Muse Book Prize; and a winner of the Lyric Memorial Award, 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 Saint Paul, Minnesota.^{[8] [9]}

Awards

Year	Sponsor / Prize	Result
2016	Able Muse Book Prize
2014	Richard Wilbur Award^[10] ^[11]
2011	Able Muse Book Prize
2011	Best of the Net
2009	Morton Marr Prize
2009	Willis Barnstone Translation Prize^[12]
2008	Lyric Memorial Award

Works

Sample poems

• "Buying a Plot in Plague Time", Modern Age, Winter 2021
• "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
• "A Meditation on Dactylic Hexameter", The Barefoot Muse

Collections

• https://www.cuapress.org/9781736656167/the-o-in-the-air/The O in the Air, Franciscan University Press (July 7, 2023)
• https://www.ablemusepress.com/books/maryann-corbett-in-code-poemsIn Code, Able Muse Press (November 27, 2020),
• https://www.ablemusepress.com/books/maryann-corbett-street-view-poemsStreet View, Able Muse Press (September 11, 2017),
• Mid Evil, University of Evansville Press; (January, 2015),
• http://www.ablemusepress.com/maryann-corbett-credo-for-the-checkout-line-in-winter-poemsCredo for the Checkout Line in Winter, Able Muse Press; (September, 2013),
• http://www.davidrobertbooks.com/maryann-corbett.htmlBreath Control, David Robert Books; (February 1, 2012),
• Dissonance, Scienter Press; (December 1, 2009),
• Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007).

Essays

• "The Monsters and the Translators: Grappling with Beowulf in the Third Millenium." Literary Matters, Issue 14.2
• "Capital Improvements: The Initial Caps Wars." Literary Matters, Issue 16.1
• of Bingen: Singer of the Secrets of God." The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline.

Reviews

• "Putting Things Back Together: On Alexis Sears's Out of Order" Los Angeles Review of Books, March 31, 2022
• "On Joyful Perseverance in Three Midcareer Poets: New Books by Brian Brodeur, Ernest Hilbert, and Amy Glynn" The Hopkins Review, September 25, 2023

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography . maryanncorbett.com . November 19, 2017 .
2. Web site: maryanncorbett.com . 2013-01-15.
3. Web site: Security by Maryann Corbett . ShatterColors Literary Review . 2010-05-02.
4. Book: Lehman . David . David Lehman. Gioia. Dana . Dana Gioia . Best American Poetry 2018 . 18 September 2018 . Scribner. 9781501127793.
5. Web site: Maryann Corbett . The HyperTexts . 2014-01-12.
6. Web site: Push for gender-neutral language continues. Ward. Bill. 2013-05-21. Minnesota Star-Tribune. 2019-12-10.
7. Web site: Maryann Corbett : Blank Verse and Blinders . The Shit Creek Review . 2007-08-01 . 2010-05-02.
8. Web site: Directory of Writers | Maryann Corbett . Poets & Writers . 2009-07-22 . 2010-05-02.
9. Web site: Maryann Corbett | bio . Able Muse . 2010-05-02.
10. Web site: Biography. maryanncorbett.com . November 18, 2019.
11. Web site: Light Verse News . Light . November 18, 2018.
12. Web site: Joyce Wilson . Poetry Porch : Poets . Poetry Porch . 2010-05-02.