WelcomeWendy Mnookin is a poet living in Newton, Massachusetts. She received her BA from Radcliffe College and her MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her latest book, THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA was published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other collections are WHAT HE TOOK, TO GET HERE, and GUENEVER SPEAKS.
Mnookin teaches poetry in the Writing Literature and Publishing Department at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a non-profit Boston writing center. Previously she has taught poetry at Boston College, to children in schools throughout the Boston area, and in workshops around the country. Mnookin's poems have been published in journals, online publications, and anthologies. She received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and WHAT HE TOOK won the 2002 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. About the books: In THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA, Mnookin explores the idea of self and how that self is strengthened and abraded by relationships. The poems coalesce around the condition of mortality--not a specific death, although these also occur, but the state of being mortal. In WHAT HE TOOK she revisits the death of her father in a car accident when she was a young child. Mnookin moves from the accident itself to her efforts to understand the loss and how it has shaped her adult life. TO GET HERE explores loss of a different kind: the inability to save those we love. In this book, Mnookin looks at her family's struggle to come to terms with a son's drug addiction. GUENEVER SPEAKS is a cycle of persona poems about the woman at the center of the Arthurian legend. Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR leaves much unsaid about Guenever, whose voice speaks in these poems. |
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