Curriculum Vitae

Campbell McGrath

4468 Royal Palm Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140

Home: (305) 538-9982; Office: (305) 919-5954

Education

Columbia University, MFA, 1988, Creative Writing

The University of Chicago, AB, 1984, English Language and Literature, with Special and Departmental Honors

Teaching Experience

Phillip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing, Florida International University 2001- present

Professor of English, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2001-present

Pearl Adelson Sherry Poet in the Department of English & William Vaughn Moody Professor in the Division

of Humanities, University of Chicago, Spring 2003

Associate Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1998-2001

Assistant Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1993-1998

Instructor, Warren Wilson College, Low Residency MFA in Writing, Asheville, NC, 1995

Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1992-1993

Instructor in Creative Writing, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1992-1993

Visiting Poet in the College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Spring, 1991

Lecturer, North Park College, Chicago, IL, 1990- 1991

Teaching Awards

Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Florida International University, 1997

Teaching Incentive Plan Award, Florida International University, 1997

Prizes and Fellowships

MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1999

Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress, 1999

Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1998

The Kingsley Tufts Prize, Claremont Graduate University, 1997

The Cohen Prize, Ploughshares, Emerson College, 1997

The Pushcart Prize, 1992

The Academy of American Poets Prize, 1987, 1985 and 1984

The Benjamin T. Burns Prize, Columbia University, 1986 and 1985

The Paul and Olga Menn Foundation Writing Award, 1984

The John Billings Fiske Prize, University of Chicago, 1984

The Napier Wilt Award, University of Chicago, 1984

Publications

• Books

Seven Notebooks (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins), forthcoming, 2007.

Heart of Anthracite: Prose Poems, 1980-2005 (Exeter, UK: Stride Press, 2005).

Pax Atomica (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2004).

Florida Poems (New York, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2002).

Road Atlas (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1999).

Spring Comes to Chicago (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1996).

American Noise (Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1993).

Capitalism (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1990).

• Chapbooks

Mangrovia (Saint Paul, MN: Short Line Editions, 1999).

Dust (Athens, OH: The Ohio Review Press, 1987).

• Volumes Edited

Ploughshares, Spring 2004, Emerson College, Boston, MA

Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual, 2003, Tigertail Productions, Miami, FL

TriQuarterly, Spring, 2002, No. 112, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

• Translation

Wasps, by Aristophanes, in Aristophanes, 2, Penn Greek Drama Series, Slavitt and Bovie, eds.,

(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 7-84, 1999.

• Poems in Journals and Periodicals

1. “Rifle, Colorado” and “Silt, Colorado,” The Ohio Review, No. 36 (1986), pp. 76-77.

2. “Dust,” The Ohio Review, No. 39 (1987), pp. 65-80.

3. “Dialectical Poem #1” and “Capitalist Poem #25,” TriQuarterly, no. 71 (Winter, 1988), pp. 167-170.

4. “The Genius of Industry,” Witness, Vol. II, No. 4 (Winter 1988), pp. 56-61.

5. “Memphis,” Shenandoah, Vol. 38, No. 4 (1988), pp. 77-78.

6. “Torre dell’Orologia” and “Where the Water Runs Down,” River Styx, No. 26 (1988), pp. 50-53.

7. “Capitalist Poem #22,” Caliban, No. 6 (1989), pp. 188-189.

8. “Capitalist Poem #7” and “Berlin,” Kingfisher, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 70-73.

9. “What They Ate” and “What They Drank,” The New Yorker, November 27, 1989, p. 50.

10. “Los Angeles” and “Negril Beach, Jamaica,” Kingfisher, Vol. IV, No. 1 pp. 52-55.

11. “Capitalist Poem #19,” Big Wednesday, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), p. 55-56.

12. “Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach” and “Yellowknife,” Antæus, No. 64/65 (Spring/Fall, 1990), pp. 75-78.

13. “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky” and “Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer,” The Paris Review, No. 119 (Summer, 1991), pp. 241-243.

14. “Almond Blossoms, Rock and Roll, the Past Seen as Burning Fields,” “At the Freud Hilton” and “James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest,” Antæus, No. 67 (Fall, 1991), pp. 199-205.

15. “Wheel of Fire, the Mojave,” The New York Times, Section 1, p. 29, January 1, 1991.

16. “Praia do Forte” and “Spicer,” Pivot, Vol. XIV, No. 40 (1992), pp. 14-15.

17. “Dawn” and “Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas,” The Ohio Review, No. 48 (1992), pp. 67-69.

18. “Ode to the Wild Horses of Caineville, Utah,” TriQuarterly, No. 84 (Spring/Summer, 1992), pp. 108-112.

19. “Wild Thing,” Another Chicago Magazine, No. 24 (Fall, 1992), pp. 100-102.

20. “Music Box,” New American Writing, No. 10 (Fall, 1992), p. 76.

21. “Night Travelers,” The New Yorker, November 23, 1992, p.102.

22. “Smokestacks, Chicago” and “Sugar Skulls, Oaxaca,” The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 490-493.

23. “Two Figures with Heat Lightning in the Sangre de Christo Mountains,” Boulevard, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 and 3 (Fall, 1993), pp. 68-69.

24. “Blue Tulips and Night Train for Jack Kerouac’s Grave,” “Rock Falls, Illinois” and “Shrimp Boats, Biloxi,” Poetry East, No. 36 (Fall, 1993), pp. 51-62.

25. “Angels and the Bars of Manhattan,” Ploughshares, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 1993/94), pp. 170-172.

26. “The First Trimester, “ Antæus, No. 75/76 (Fall, 1994), pp. 297-299.

27. “Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas” and “Untitled,” Bomb, No. XXXXVI (Winter, 1994) p. 56.

28. Two excerpts from “The Bob Hope Poem,” TriQuarterly, No. 94 (Fall, 1995), pp. 170-190.

29. “Seashells, Manasota Key,” The Paris Review, No. 136 (Fall, 1995), pp. 78-79.

30. “Spring Comes to Chicago” and “Sylvia Plath,” The Ohio Review, No. 55 (1996), pp. 15-19.

31. “Capitalist Poem #36” and “Capitalist Poem #38,” Witness, Vol. X, No. 2 (1996), p. 146.

32. “The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial, “ The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 610-612.

33. “Maizel at Shorty’s in Kendall,” TriQuarterly, No. 95 (Winter, 1996), p. 112.

34. “Plums” and “The Prose Poem,” The Paris Review, No. 140 (Fall, 1996), pp. 126-128.

35. “The Golden Angel Pancake House,” Third Coast (Summer/Fall, 1996), pp. 11-13.

36. “Dinosaurs,” TriQuarterly, No. 96 (Spring/Summer, 1996), pp. 171-173.

37. “Praia dos Orixas,” Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter, 1996-97), pp. 121-123.

38. “Baker, California,” Indiana Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 60-61.

39. “Biscayne Boulevard” and “El Balserito,” The New Times, Vol. 12, No. 6 (May 22-28, 1997), pp. 11-19.

40. “El Balserito,” Ploughshares, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 144-145.

41. “Elizabeth Bishop in the House on White Street” and “The Gulf,” Quarterly West, No. 44 (Spring/Summer, 1997), pp. 12-13.

42. Excerpt from “The Bob Hope Poem,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 294, No. 1765 (June, 1997), pp. 32-35.

43. “Biscayne Boulevard,” TriQuarterly , No. 100 (Fall, 1997), pp. 105-108.

44. “A Dove,” “Capitalist Poem #42” and “Port Olry,” The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. XX, No. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 80-82.

45. “A Map of Dodge County, Wisconsin,” “Florida” and “Jeffrey Lee Pierce,” Sycamore Review, Vol. Ten, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 1998), pp. 50-53.

46. “Las Vegas” and “Mountainair, New Mexico,” Luna, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 180-183.

47. “Albergo Santa Restituta,” Harvard Review, No. 14 (Spring, 1998), p. 88.

48. “Capitalist Poem #41” and “Jimmy Buffett,” Mangrove, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fall, 1998), pp. 11-15.

49. “Capitalist Poem #48,” Conduit, No. 6 (Fall, 1998), p. 19.

50. “The Golden Angel Pancake House,” Grantmakers in the Arts, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall, 1998), pp. 7-8.

51. “The Wreck,” Ploughshares, Vol. 24, No., 4 (Winter, 1998-99), p. 130.

52. “Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory” and “Rice & Beans,” Indiana Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 102-103.

53. “Capitalist Poem #55,” River Styx, No. 54 (Spring, 1999), p. 30.

54. “Atlanta,” Paris Review, No. 151 (Summer, 1999) pp. 43-44.

55. “Love©,” Pleiades, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), p.110.

56. “North Carolina” and “Of Pure Forms,” Harvard Review, No. 18 (Spring, 2000), pp.47-48.

57. “Train Journal” and “Zeugma,” Chicago Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 1-9.

58. “Florida” and “The Florida Anasazi,” TriQuarterly, No. 107/108 (Spring/Summer, 2000), pp.417- 419.

59. “Edison in Fort Myers, 1885,” Ploughshares, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 2000-01), pp. 125-126

60. “Xena, Warrior Princess,” Pleaides, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter, 2001). p. 94.

61. “Benediction for the Savior of Orlando,” Indiana Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 69-71.

62. “Archimedes,” Colorado Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 111-112.

63. “The Florida Poem, TriQuarterly, No. 110/111 (Spring/Summer, 2001), pp. 337-351.

64. “William Bartram Beset by Crocodiles or Alligators,” Salt Hill. No. 10 (Fall, 2001), pp. 71-76.

65. “The Zebra Longwing,” Kenyon Review, Vol XXIV,No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 15-16.

66. “Mile Marker 73, Lower Matecumbe Key” and “The Strangler Fig,” Quarterly West, No. 53 (Fall/Winter 2001), pp.16-17.

67. “Because This Is Florida,” Paris Review, No. 161 (Spring, 2002), p. 127.

68. “Trouble with Miami,” Graffitti Rag, No. 5 (2002), p 60.

69. “Capitalist Poem #57” and “Girl with Blue Plastic Radio,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol XLI, No. 2 (Spring, 2002), pp. 246-248.

70. “Elizabeth Bishop in the House on White Street” and “The Last Days,” San Diego Weekly Reader, Vol. 31, No. 18 (May 2, 2002), p. 84.

71. “At the Royal Palm Barbershop,” Solo, No. 5. (2002), pp. 123-124.

72. “The Human Heart,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2003, p. 82.

73. “Late Spring,” Poetry, April, 2004, pp. 14-15.

74. “Infinite Needs,” “Iowa” and “The Maelstrom,” Salmagundi, Nos. 144-145, Fall 2004, pp 113-121.

75. “Tiger,” Mad Love, June, 2004.

76. “Home” and “The Glann Road,” Electronic Poetry Review, 2004, www.epr.com.

77. “Adam and Eve,” “Everybody Knows John Lennon Is Dead” and “Rock and Roll,” Smartish Pace,

Issue 10, pp.151-155.

78. “Guns n’ Roses,” TriQuarterly, No. 119, pp. 55-58.

79. “Hits Of the 70s,” Georgia Review, Vol LVIII, No. 2 (Summer, 2004) pp. 282-287.

80. “Steely Dan,” Mipoesia, 2004, www.mipo.com.

81. “Adam and Eve” and “Rock and Roll,” Street, April 30, 2004, pp. 25-26.

82. “The Human Heart, American Poet, Vol. 26, Spring, 2004, p. 27.

83. “Faulty Ghazal” and “Tony Hoagland,” Gulf Coast, Vol 17, No. 1, Winter/Spring, 2005, pp. 204-208.

84. “Girl with Blue Plastic Radio” and “Two Songs”, Organica, Vol. 23, No. 68, Winter/Spring, 2005, p. 20.

85. “Li-Young Lee,” Margie, Vol. 4, 2005, p. 235.

86. “The Indivisibles,” The New Yorker,. July 11 & 18, 2005, p. 46.

87. “Homage to Syntax,” Kenyon Review, Vol XXVII, No. 4, Fall, 2005, pp. 115-116.

88. “3 a.m.,” “Civilization” and “Surfers,” Call Review, No. 3, 2005, pp. 83-86.

89. “September,” Five Points, Vol. IX, No. 3, 2005, p.137.

90. “Order and Disorder” and “Rilke,” Poetry Northwest, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 14-15.

91. “Now,” “The Past” and “Time,” Salmagundi, forthcoming.

92. “Albert Goldbarth,” “Forms of Attention” and “Ode to Inspiration,” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXVI,

No. 2, 2006, pp. 108-110.

93. “Eclogue” and “Hiroshige,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XLV, No. 2, Spring, 2006, pp. 257-262.

94. “Dahlias” and “The World Has Flooded Over Me,” Sentence, No. 4, 2006, pp.90-93.

95. “Texts,” Pleaides, forthcoming.

96. “Philadelphia” and “Two Poems for Frank O’Hara,” Ploughshares, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2006, pp 109-110.

97. “Phoenix” and “Rhetoric,” New American Writing, No. 24, 2006, pp. 109-110.

98. “Consciousness,” Agni, forthcoming.

99. “Krome Avenue, Fugue, No. 31, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 57-60.

100. “Ode to a Can of Schaeffer Beer,” New England Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2006, pp. 210-212.

101. “Ode to Bureaucrats” and “Ode to the Plantar Fascia,” Pool, Vol. 5, 2006, pp. 71-73.

102. “Villanelle,” Poetry, July/August, 2006, p. 330.

103. “September 11,” Kenyon Review, forthcoming.

104. “The Future” and “Then,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 82, No. 4, Fall, 2006, pp. 82-84.

105. “Dim Sum” and “Justice,” TriQuarterly, forthcoming.

106. “Issa,” Cue, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 2-3.

107. “Form,” The Atlantic Monthly, forthcoming.

108. “Lincoln Road,” Slate, forthcoming.

109. “Invitations” and “Storm Valediction,” Indiana Review, forthcoming.

110. “Existence,” “Half-Day Blues” and “Luxury,” Crab Orchard Review, forthcoming.

111. “Lynda Hull,” Arts & Letters, forthcoming.

• Poems in Anthologies and Textbooks

1. New Voices: Selected University & College Prize-Winning Poems, Hall, ed. (New York, NY: Academy of American Poets, 1989); “Five Sonnets for Joseph Cornell,” pp. 95-98.

2. The Pushcart Prize XVII: Best of the Small Presses, Henderson, ed. (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1992-93); “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” pp. 177-178.

3. The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry, Collier, ed. (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1993); “Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach,” “What They Drank” and “Dialectical Poem #1,” pp. 246-248.

4. For a Living: The Poetry of Work , Coles and Oresick, eds. (Urbana and Chicago, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 1995); “Capitalist Poem #5,” p. 248.

5. Poetry of the American West, Deming, ed. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996); “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky” and “James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest,” pp. 301-304.

6. Having a Wonderful Time: An Anthology of South Florida Writers, Chinelly, Dufresne and Hettich, eds. (Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1997); “Delphos, Ohio,” pp. 184-187.

7. Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, Bosselaar and Brown, eds. (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1997); “Angels and the Bars of Manhattan,” pp. 247-249.

8. The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Collier and Plumly, eds., (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999); “A Dove,” “El Balserito,” “Las Vegas,” and “Manitoba,” pp. 177-181.

9. Acts of Reading, Harkin, ed., (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999); “Capitalist Poem #7,” p.651-652.

10. Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing, Guzman and Starkey, eds., (Chicago, IL: Wild Onion Press, 1999); “Smokestacks, Chicago” and “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” pp.527-529.

11. Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves, Capella and Wormser, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000); “Langdon, North Dakota,” pp. 316-318.

12 American Poetry: The Next Generation, Costanzo and Daniels, eds. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000); “At the Freud Hilton” and “Shrimp Boats, Biloxi,” pp. 265-267.

13. The New Young American Poets, Prufer, ed. (Carbondale, IL: University of Southern Illinois Press, 2000); “The First Trimester,” “Delphos, Ohio,” “Spring Comes to Chicago,” and “Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky,” pp.105-111.

14. The New American Poets, Collier, ed. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000); “Capitalist Poem #36,” “Florida,” “The Florida Anasazi,” “Jack Gilbert” and “Jeffrey Lee Pierce,” pp. 143-147.

15. Power Lines: The Guild Complex Anthology, Warr, ed. (Chicago, IL: Tia Chucha Press, 2000); “Capitalist Poem #55,” p. 120.

16. Urban Nature, Bosselaar, ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000); “The First Trimester,” pp. 175-177.

17. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, Moustaki, ed., (Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2001); “A Dove,” pp. 202-203.

18. American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, Suarez and Van Cleave, eds. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2001), “El Balserito” and “Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory,” pp. 227 and 242.

19. Ohio Review: New & Selected, Vol II, Dodd, ed., (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2001), “Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas,” p 70.