Tony Trigilio

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Chicago, IL
Illinois US
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Author's Bio

Tony Trigilio's books include, most recently, Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023); Proof Something Happened, selected by Susan Howe as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize (Marsh Hawk, 2021); and Ghosts of the Upper Floor (BlazeVOX [books], 2019), the third installment in his multivolume cross-genre project, The Complete "Dark Shadows" (of My Childhood). A volume of his selected poems, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos, was published in Guatemala in 2018 by Editorial Poe (translated by Bony Hernández). He is the editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments (Ahsahta Press), and, with Tim Prchal, he co-edited the anthology Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press). Trigilio co-founded the poetry journal Court Green, and is Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Craft: A Memoir (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023)

Poetry

Books:
Proof Something Happened (Marsh Hawk Press, 2021)
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Ghosts of the Upper Floor (BlazeVOX books, 2019)
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Dispatches from the Body Politic: Interviews with Jan Beatty, Meg Day, and Douglas Kearney (Essay Press, 2016)
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Inside the Walls of My Own House: The Complete "Dark Shadows" (of My Childhood), Vol. 2 (BlazeVOX books, 2016)
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Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments (Ahsahta Press, 2014)
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The Complete "Dark Shadows" (of My Childhood), Vol. 1 (BlazeVOX books, 2014)
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White Noise (Apostrophe Books, 2013)
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Historic Diary (BlazeVOX books, 2011)
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Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
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Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007)
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The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006)
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"Strange Prophecies Anew" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000)
Chapbooks:
With the Memory, Which is Enormous (Main Street Rag, 2009)
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Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (Scantily Clad Press, 2008)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Erie, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Feb 02, 2024