Curriculum Vitae: Peter Martin Campion
Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota
BOOKS
The Lions: Poems. The University of Chicago Press, April 2009.
Other People: Poems. The University of Chicago Press, September 2005.
Mitchell Johnson [art monograph]. Terrence Rogers Fine Art, June 2004.
EDUCATION
M.A., Creative Writing, Boston University, 2000.
Thesis Advisers: Robert Pinsky and Rosanna Warren.
B.A., with High Honors in English Literature, Dartmouth College, 1998.
Thesis Advisers: Tom Sleigh and Jonathan Crewe.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, August 2011 to the present.
Assistant Professor, Auburn University. August 2008 to the June 2011.
Faculty Member, Ashland University, Low Residency M.F.A. Program. July 2008 to the present.
Assistant Professor, Washington College, August 2006 to July 2008.
Full Time Jones Lecturer, Stanford University, September 2003 to June 2006.
George Starbuck Lecturer, Boston University, September 1999 to June 2000.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Montalvo Arts Center, Residency Fellowship, granted November 2011 for residency in June 2013.
Editors Award for Reviewing, Poetry, 2011.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2011-12.
Larry Levis Reading Prize, Virginia Commonwealth University. Awarded for The Lions. September, 2010.
The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, Drue Heinz Trust, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy in Rome, 2009-2010.
Civitella Ranieri Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Gubbio, Italy, 2009.
Theodore Morrison Fellowship in Poetry. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Middlebury College, Ripton, VT. August 2009.
Pushcart Prize, 2008.
Knight Fellows’ Favorite Professor Awards, Stanford University, Spring 2004, Spring 2006.
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2001-2003.
The Hurley Memorial Award for Poetry, awarded by Boston University, Spring 2000.
The National Academy of American Poets Award, Spring 1998. (Judge: Robert Polito.)
The Grogan Skilling Award for Creative Writing, awarded by Dartmouth College, Spring 1998. (Judge: Robert Polito.)
The Alexander Laing Memorial Award for Creative Writing, awarded by Dartmouth College, Spring 1997. (Judge: Reginald Gibbons.)
WORK IN ANTHOLOGIES, ART CATALOGS, AND BROADSIDES
“Riddle of the Wind,” “Riddle of Fire,” poems in translation. The Word Exchange: Living Poets Translate Anglo-Saxon Poems ed. Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, and Seamus Heaney. W.W. Norton, November 2010.
“Two Doubles,” “Or Wherever Your Final Destination May Be,” “This Blue Vase,” “Vermont: The Ranch House,” “The Red Eye,” “Poem Before Sunrise,” “Magnolias,” “Big Avalanche Ravine,” “Recurring Dream in a New Home,” poems. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets ed. David Yezzi. Swallow Press, Ohio State University. September 2009.
“On Suhas Bhujbal,” catalog essay. Suhas Bhujbal: New Paintings. Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA. September 2009.
“Landscape and Impulse: New Paintings by Ira Barkoff,” catalog essay. Ira Barkoff: Recent Paintings. Ober Gallery, Kent, CT, May 2009.
“Painterly Painting: The Next Level,” catalog essay. Painterly Painting: The Next Level. Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA. January 2009.
“Palpable Fact: James Schuyler and Immediacy,” essay reprinted in Poetry Criticism: vol. 88. Gale-Cengage, July 2008.
“Figures with Edges,” catalog essay. Kim Frohsin: Figures with Edges. Nelson Macker Fine Art, Port Chester, NY, June 2008.
“The Architecture of Emotion,” catalog essay. Siddharth Parasnis: The Architecture of Emotion. Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 2008.
“Landscape and Sensation,” catalog essay. Eric Aho: Quarry. Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY, October 2007.
“The Population,” poem. The Poetry Daily Anthology. Sourcebooks, March 2007.
“Two Minutes and Counting: on Kim Frohsin,” catalog essay. Kim Frohsin. Dolby-Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 2007.
"The Pursuit of Form: on Terry St. John," catalog essay. Terry St. John, Studio Figures and Landscape Paintings. Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2006.
"The Unseen Soul of the Real: Joseph McNamara," monograph essay. Joseph McNamara, Paintings. Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT, February 2006.
"César Chávez Park: 7 a.m.," poem reproduced as a letter-press broadside by Jack W. Stauffacher, Greenwood Press, in affiliation with The Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.
"Giving Life to Painting," introduction and interview. Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings. Herman I. Wolk Gallery. Summer 2005. Reprinted in Mitchell Johnson: Doppio Binario by Marilena Pasquali, Musei Senesi, Bologna, Italy, 2007.
POEMS PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS
“Los Angeles River.” Provincetown Arts [dossier in honor of Robert Pinsky]. Summer 2012.
“After Baudelaire: I have not forgotten. . .” The Ocean State Review. Spring 2012
“Gillian,” “Rome: Azaleas.” Columbia Journal of the Arts and Literature. March 2012.
“Securities,” The Cortland Review. Guest Editor: C.K. Williams. December 2012.
“Primitive Figure, Dogu Period.” Congeries. October 2011.
“Car Radio Near Cleveland Near Dawn.” Threepenny Review, Summer 2011.
“1986: The Court.” Harvard Review, March 2011.
“Blood Brook,” “Salt Water,” “Lines after Watching the Returns, 2010.” Diode, March 2011.
“Letter from Ohio.” The Kenyon Review, January 2011.
“Salt Water (II).” Slate, November 30, 2010.
“Rome.” AGNI, October 2010
“Dandelions,” “Over Greenland.” Poetry, July 2010.
“July: Gile Mountain.” The New Republic, July 1, 2009.
“The Sawtooths,” “Truro Meditation (II).” Redivider, Spring 2009.
“At the Seoul Writers’ Festival,” “Imperium.” Poetry International, Fall 2008.
“Iran: 1980,” “Display Copy.” The Journal, Fall 2008.
“Sparrow,” “July.” Urbanite, November 2008.
“The Lions.” Blackbird, May 2008.
“Just Now,” “In Late August.” Poetry, November 2007.
“Recurring Dream in a New Home.” AGNI 66, October 2007.
“Simile.” The New Republic, August 27, 2007.
“Lilacs.” Slate, June 26, 2007.
“Long Finger Poem.” Translated from the Korean of Jin Eun-Young, with the author, Poetry, April 2007.
"So Here is How We Live Now," "In Early March," "September." Poetry Northwest, October 2006.
"Sunrise at Yuba Pass." Agenda (U.K.), Summer 2006.
"Other People," "Tamaracks," "Big Avalanche Ravine," "Magnolias." Contemporary Poetry Vol. 4 (South Korea.) Translations into Korean by Joon-Soo Bong. May 2006.
"Big Avalanche Ravine," "Magnolias." Poetry, February 2006.
"Bad Reception," "Poem off Interstate 101." Art New England, February 2006.
"Invisible Bird," "Ohio." Agenda, U.S. Issue (U.K.), December 2005.
"Stephanie." The Oregonian, December 4, 2005.
"Protest." The New Hampshire Review, July 2005.
“Wildcat Canyon,” “Old Haunts.” Court Green (Tribute to Lorine Niedecker), May 2005.
“Skin,” “Stone.” TriQuarterly 120, April 2005.
“The Elephants.” Literary Imagination (guest editor, Christopher Ricks), Spring 2004.
“Poem To Fire.” Slate, March 30, 2004.
“Hummingbird.” PN Review 164 (U.K.), May-June, 2004.
"SFO." Poetry, January 2004.
“The Infraction.” Translated from the Ancient Greek of Alcaeus, Two Lines (guest editor, Geoffrey Brock), Spring 2004.
“Nephew,” “This Blue Vase.” AGNI 58, October 2003
“The Population.” Southwest Review, Spring 2003.
“Other People.” Slate, March 25, 2003.
“Destination.” TriQuarterly 114. (Fall 2002.)
“After Hesiod,” “Cape Cod: The Hostess,” “Two Doubles,” “Vermont: The Ranch House.” PN Review 144 (U.K.) March-April, 2002.
“Tamaracks.” Tikkun, January 2000.
“The Spectator.” Provincetown Arts, July 1999.
“From ‘Les Amours’.” Translated from the French of Pierre de Ronsard. AGNI 49, October 1998.
PROSE PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS
“As through an Unwashed Goldfish Globe,” essay on Robert Lowell. AGNI Spring 2012.
“Interview with David St. John,” interview. Literary Imagination, November 2011.
“Self Starter,” review of The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan. Poetry, September 2011.
“A Tree with Roots,” review of World Tree by David Wojahn, Diode, fall 2011.
“Beyond Disbelief,” omnibus review of Lynn Emanuel, Tom Sleigh, C. Dale Young. Los Angeles Review of Books. September 1, 2011.
Review of Norman Dubie, The Volcano, The Believer, September 2011.
“The Solitary Life,” review of Canti by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Jonathan Galassi. The New York Times Book Review, December 19, 2010.
“Rhetoric, Music, America,” review of Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland and Romey’s Order by Atsuro Riley. Poetry, May 2010.
“Between Ordinary and Ecstatic,” review of The Living Fire: Selected Poems by Edward Hirsch. The New York Times Book Review, March 28, 2010.
“Strangers,” review of Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden, Selected Poems and The Sun-Fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Poetry, December 2009.
“Updike Redux,” review of Endpoint by John Updike. The Boston Globe, April 12, 2009.
“Nabokov’s Birthday Cards: an Interview with J.D. McClatchy.” Five Points. January 2009.
“The Generous Critic,” review of Antoine’s Alphabet by Jed Perl. The Boston Globe, December 20, 2008.
“How Can I Call You: Joshua Weiner,” review of From the Book of Giants by Joshua Weiner. Provincetown Arts, Summer 2008.
Review of Old War by Alan Shapiro. The Boston Globe, July 10, 2008.
“Poetry of Vitality and Mortality,” review of Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky. The Boston Globe, January 28,, 2008.
“On American Poetry and Political Protest,” essay. Poetry Northwest, March 2008.
“Sincerity and its Discontents in American Poetry Now,” essay. Poetry, February 2008.
“Mah Walla-Woe: the Other Robert Pinsky,” essay. The Yale Review, October 2007.
“About Borromini,” review of Deborah Rosenthal and Jed Perl at The Bowery Gallery, New York, NY. Artcritical, April 2007.
Review of Collected Poems by C.K. Williams. The Boston Globe, February 28, 2007.
"Eight Takes," reviews of James Fenton, Mark Strand, Jay Hopler, Ellen Bryant Voigt, A.E. Stallings, David Wojahn, Galway Kinnell, and Louis Zukofsky. Poetry, January 2007.
Review of Civilization by Elizabeth Arnold. Tikkun, January 2007.
"The Poet in the Gorilla Mask," review of Collected Poems by Kenneth Koch. The Boston Globe, October 11, 2006.
"Darkness and Renewal," review of District and Circle by Seamus Heaney. The Boston Globe, September 17, 2006.
"Three Types of Tension," reviews of Louise Glück, John Koethe, and James McMichael. The Yale Review, July 2006.
Review of "Société Anonyme: Modernism for America" at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Modern Painters, July 2006.
"American Essences: on the Paintings of Philip Malicoat," essay. Provincetown Arts, July 2006.
Review of "Erwin Blumenfeld: Photographs, Collages, and Paintings" at Modernism Inc., San Francisco. Modern Painters, June 2006.
"The Divine Eros," interview of Clive Wilmer. The London Magazine, May 2006. Reprinted in Notre Dame Review, Fall 2007.
"The Poet's Lab," review of Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Alice Quinn. The Boston Globe, April 16, 2006.
"I Have a Secret with Myself: James Wright's Classicism," essay. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, April 2006.
Review of "F.Scott Hess: The Seven Laughters of God" at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. Modern Painters, April 2006.
"Against Principles: on the Practice of Criticism," essay. Poetry Northwest, March 2006.
"Repossessions," reviews of Virgil (trans. David Ferry), Dick Barnes, Jorie Graham, Poets of the Civil War (ed. J.D. McClatchy), Devin Johnston, Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, and Charles Simic. Poetry, March 2006.
Review of Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons. Twentieth Century Literature, February 2006.
Review of Joan Snyder "Two Rivers" at the Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, and "Joan Snyder: A Review" at the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. Modern Painters, February 2006.
Review of "Manuel Neri: Painted Bronzes and Plasters," at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. Sculpture, January 2006.
Review of "Gustavo Ramos Rivera: The Poetics of Painting," at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery. ArtWeek, December 2005.
Review of "Marcel Broodthaers: Voyage on the North Sea," at Solo Projects, Los Angeles. Modern Painters, December 2005.
Review of "Brides of Frankenstein," at San Jose Museum of Art. Modern Painters, November 2005.
"Floods of Paint," review of New Art City by Jed Perl. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 2, 2005.
"High Art from Anguish," review of Star Dust by Frank Bidart. The Boston Globe, October 16, 2005.
Review of "The Art of Richard Tuttle," at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The New Criterion, October 2005.
Review of “Rachel Lachowicz” at The Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica. Modern Painters, June 2005.
“The Trees Sometimes Look at Him,” essay on Willem de Kooning. Provincetown Arts, Summer 2005.
“More Elephant,” essay on Milton Resnick. Provincetown Arts, Summer 2005.
“Conversations in Prose,” review of The Collected Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2005.
“Grasshoppers: A Notebook,” essay. Poetry, June 2005.
“Rochester's Honesty,” essay on John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. The New Criterion, April 2005.
Review of “American Modern,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. The New Criterion, March 2005.
“Men in the Sky, Intrigue Below,” review of Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2005.
Review of “Dream Games: the Art of Robert Schwartz,” San Jose Museum of Art, and “Robert Schwartz: Selected Paintings, 1984-2000,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. ArtNews, February 2005.
“Cold Clarity,” essay on Margaret Avison. PN Review 162 (U.K.), February 2005.
“Ten Takes,” reviews of Rae Armantrout, John Ash, Jeff Clark, Stephen Dunn, Joseph Harrison, Alice Jones, A.F. Moritz, Thylias Moss, P.K. Page, and Mark Wunderlich. Poetry, November 2004.
“Man Who Makes Human Beings,” essay on Paul Gauguin. Threepenny Review, Fall 2004.
“The Point of Access,” reviews of John Peck, Thomas Lux, James Galvin and Ronald Johnson. Poetry, May 2004.
“Tuned To The Fact,” essay on Frank O’Hara. Poetry, April 2004.
"On Translating Alcaeus," essay. Two Lines (guest editor, Geoffrey Brock.) Spring 2004.
“A South African Pieta,” review of The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda. The San Francisco Chronicle, March 2004.
“Jet Fuel,” review of The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler. The Guardian (U.K.). March 20, 2004.
Review of The Singing by C.K. Williams. Harvard Review, Spring 2004.
Review of Late Writings by Clement Greenberg. Harvard Review, Spring 2004.
"An Image of Survival: Anita Brookner," review of Anita Brookner's Rules of Engagement. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 2004.
“Logue Generals,” essay on Christopher Logue. Contemporary Poetry Review, November 2003.
“Dark and Deep: A New Life for Nathaniel Hawthorne,” review of Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Life by Brenda Wineapple. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 2003.
“Short Reviews” of J.D. McClatchy, Medbh McGuckian, Frederick Seidel, Tom Paulin, and Adam Kirsch. Poetry, November 2003.
Review of Far Side of the Earth by Tom Sleigh. Harvard Review, Fall 2003.
“Lowell’s Violent, Generous Work,” review of The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. San Francisco Chronicle, July 13, 2003.
“The Slowworm’s Mosaic,” review of Collected Studies in the Use of English by Kenneth Cox. Jacket Magazine (Australia), May 2003. Reprinted in Agenda, U.S. Issue (U.K.) December 2005.