Professor of English
kevin.cantwell@maconstate.edu

Kevin Cantwell has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah (1991). A regular reviewer of poetry collections, he edited Quarterly West magazine while in graduate school. His poems have appeared in such places as The New Republic, Poetry, Metre (UK), Commonweal, Antioch Review, and The Paris Review. One of his poems was reprinted in The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Dinner, Death, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 (Picador, 2003). In 2002, his book Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye was published by New Issues Press at Western Michigan State University. He has won the Academy of American Poets Prize; has twice won the River City Poetry Award; has won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship; and has won the Agnes Scott Poetry Prize. He currently teaches creative writing, composition, professional writing, the literature of the workplace, and print history. He has a new book of poems out from What Books Press in September of 2009, One of Those Russian Novels from What Books Press.