Maryann Corbett
Maryann Corbett is an American poet, medievalist, and linguist.
She grew up in northern Virginia. She did her undergraduate work at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and graduated with a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota.
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. 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.
She has worked as a writing teacher and master indexer for the Minnesota Legislature, where she has served in the state Office of the Revisor of Statutes for 35 years.
She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Works
Sample poems
- , Modern Age, Winter 2021
- , 32 Poems, Fall/Winter 2016
- , Rattle, April 26, 2017; The Best American Poetry 2018
- , Rattle, January 16, 2015
- , Umbrella Journal, 2008
- , Strong Verse, 10/30/2008
- , Poetry Porch
- , ''The Barefoot Muse''
Collections
- The O in the Air, Franciscan University Press
- In Code, Able Muse Press,
- Street View, Able Muse Press,
- Mid Evil, University of Evansville Press;,
- Credo for the Checkout Line in Winter, Able Muse Press;,
- Breath Control, David Robert Books;,
- Dissonance, Scienter Press;,
- .
Essays
- Literary Matters, Issue 14.2
- Literary Matters, Issue 16.1
- The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline.
Reviews
- Los Angeles Review of Books, March 31, 2022
- The Hopkins Review, September 25, 2023