Emily Rosko
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-1:30, Wednesday 3:00-3:55
Phone: 843.953.0878
E-mail: roskoe@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://blogs.cofc.edu/roskoe/
Emily Rosko is the author of two poetry collections, Prop Rockery, recently awarded the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize, and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. Additionally, she is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press 2011). A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she also is the past recipient of Poetry magazine’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She joined the Department of English at the College of Charleston in 2010.
Education
2009 - Ph.D., English and Creative Writing, University of Missouri
2003 - M.F.A., Poetry, Cornell University
2001 - B.A., English and Creative Writing with a minor in Philosophy, Purdue University
Research Interests
- Poetry Writing
- English language poetry
- The history of the lyric
- Poetics and genre theory
- Shakespeare
- Natue/science writing
Publications
BOOKS:
Prop Rockery. University of Akron Press, forthcoming 2012.
A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Coedited and introduced with Anton Vander Zee. University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Raw Goods Inventory. University of Iowa Press, 2006.
ESSAY:
“The Complaint.” Poets on Teaching. Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (2010). 135-37.
RECENT POEMS:
“[If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome],” The Beloit Poetry Journal (forthcoming).
“[I can drink with any tinker]” and “Stock, Still,” The Laurel Review (forthcoming).
“Aubade” and “Albatross,” Redivider 8:1 (Fall 2010).
“Timbered,” Verse Daily (Sept. 27, 2010 and Dec. 29, 2010 as a 2010 favorite).
“A Final Procession for the Pattern Maker,” The Cincinnati Review 7:1 (Summer 2010).
