V. Penelope Pelizzon
V. Penelope Pelizzon is an American poet and essayist. Her first poetry collection, Nostos, won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. She is a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Life
She graduated from University of Massachusetts, Boston, summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine, and University of Missouri in 1998.She has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Missouri, Washington and Jefferson College, and University of Connecticut.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, Orion, The Hudson Review, Ecotone, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, Field, The New England Review, Narrative, The Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Plume, ZYZZYVA, and Fourth Genre.
She is married to Anthony Deaton, a foreign service officer.
Awards
- 2021 Editor's Choice Selection for the Quarterly West Chapbook Award, for Of Vinegar Of Pearl
- 2019 Hawthornden Residency Fellowship for poetry
- 2012 The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award for Human Field
- 2008 Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship
- 2003 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
- 2001 Norma Farber First Book Award, for Nostos, by Poetry Society of America
- 1999 Hollis Summers Prize
- The Kenneth Rexroth Translation Award
- 1997 The 92nd Street Y's “Discovery”/ The Nation Award
Works
Narrative, Spring 2022. Plume, issue 120, August 2021.Ecotone no. 28, Spring 2020. Ecotone, no. 27, spring/summer 2019.Tin House online, May 2019.- , National Poetry Month Feature, 21 April 2015.Poetry, vol. 202, no. 2, May 2013. Poetry, vol. 200, no. 1, Apr. 2012.Poetry, vol. 195, no. 4, Jan. 2010.Poetry, vol. 187, no. 2, Nov. 2005.
- . The Waywiser Press. 2014.. Pelizzon's second book of poems was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
- “Memoire on the Heliograph.” Fourth Genre, vol. 6, no. 2, 2004.
- Pelizzon's first book of poems won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
- Pelizzon and Nancy M. West discuss tabloid newspapers, especially those of the late 1920s and early 1930s, using a combination of narrative and film theory.
Translation
- with accompanying translator’s note, Poetry, vol.198, no. 3, June 2011.