Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang

In early February UI affiliated poets Matthea Harvey and Mary Jo Bang were both nominated for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna and visiting professor Matthea Harvey was nominated for Modern Life, published in October 2007 by Graywolf Press. A selection of poems from Modern Life are available online at her website.

Mary Jo Bang was nominated for her fifth book of poems, Elegy, also published in 2007 by Graywolf. She attended the University of Iowa as a student, and will teach as a visiting professor at the Writers' Workshop in the Fall 2008 semester. For more information about Mary Jo Bang, visit her page at the Academy of American Poets.

Read more about this article at the Writers' Workshop website. Credit: Kelly A. Smith.