Julie Agoos

  Professor
  Department: English
  Location: 3108 Boylan Hall
  Phone: 718-951-4274
  Fax: 718-951-4612

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Julie Agoos is the author of three collections of poetry. Above the Land (1987),selected by James Merrill as winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, also received the Towson State University Prize for Literature. Calendar Year was published by the Sheep Meadow Press in 1996, and Property, for which she received the Brooklyn College/CUNY Creative Achivement Award in 2006, is forthcoming from Ausable Press in January 2008. Professor Agoos has been a resident Fellow of The Frost Place, and was a member of the Creative Writing faculty at Princeton University for eight years. She came to BC in 1994, and teaches courses in Creative Writing/Poetry in both the undergraduate English department and the MFA Poetry program. She also teaches courses in Victorian Poetry, Modern British and Irish Poetry, and special topics tutorials in reading and writing, such as Poetry and the Source and The Poetics of Hell.

Education:
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University - 1983 (The Writing Seminars)

B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University - 1979 (English and American Literature and Language)

Areas of Expertise:
My primary interest is in dramatic and narrative modes of poetry, and in lyric strategies for the long poem. I am also interested in exploring, in book form, the ways in which poems overlap and infiltrate each other to create a sustained form beyond the forms of individual lyrics.