Julie Agoos
Professor
English
Location: 3108 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3645
Fax: 718.951.4612
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Julie Agoos is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Echo System (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2015). 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, was published by Ausable Press in 2008. 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 Brooklyn College in 1994 and teaches courses in creative writing/poetry in both the undergraduate English Department and the M.F.A. 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:
Professor Agoos' primary interest is in dramatic and narrative modes of poetry, and in lyric strategies for the long poem. She is 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.
Books and Publications
"Cold War Free Radio" (poem) published in The New Yorker, May 25, 2015 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
Echo System. The Sheep Meadow Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
"Una radianza nel tempo" translated for Spiritualita e rigore. Milan, Italy: SilvanaEditoriale, in conjunction with the exhibition "Josef Albers, Spiritualita e rigore" at the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
"Fire and Ice," an essay commissioned by the Josef Albers Foundation for the Cork University Museum catalogue for "Sacred Modernism," a retrospective of work by Josef Albers opening on April 5, Cork City, Ireland. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Property, a collection of poems. Ausable/Copper Canyon Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2008
Poems. An Ausable Reader. Ausable Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2008
Poems. Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets, 1951-1971 anthology. Mercer University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007
Poems. A Poem a Day anthology. Steerforth Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006
The Gift of Light, Tribute to Donald Sheehan (festschrift). Swamp Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2003
Foreword to Rattle, by Eloise Bruce. CavanKerry Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2002
Poems and critical comment. The Breath of Parted Lips anthology. CavanKerry Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 1999
Calendar Year, a collection of poems comprising four interpenetrating sequences. The Sheep Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 1997
Above the Land, poems, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (selected by James Merrill) and the Towson State University Prize for Literature, YUP. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 1987
Creative Work
work on Profession, a play in three acts 2020
completion of Stateless, a collection of poems 2019
Profession, a play in three acts. 2013
Poems from the series "Satires of Circumstance." Notre Dame Review, January. 2012
Poetry reading, Turnstyle Poetry Series of the Affiliated CUNY Writing Programs. 2010
Poetry reading for the New York Academy of Poets. New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch. 2009
Poetry reading with Ausable Press authors. New York Arts Club. 2009
Poetry reading, Blacksmith Poetry Series, Cambridge, Mass. 2009
Poetry reading, Nyack Center Women of Leadership and Vision Honoree ceremony. 2009
Poetry reading, The Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College. 2008
Reading, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 2008
Staged reading of Property, directed by Darrell Larson. Riverspace Arts Center. 2008
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Committee member, Honors and Awards Committee, Department of English (Awards and Honors) 2020
Tow Professorship, Brooklyn College (Awards and Honors) 2009
Tow Professorship Award, Brooklyn College. (Awards and Honors) 2008
Creative Achievement Award, Brooklyn College. (Awards and Honors) 2006
Robert Frost Place Residency Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 1989
Towson State University Prize for Literature. (Awards and Honors) 1988
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. (Awards and Honors) 1987
Briggs Literary Fellowship for one year of travel to Florence, Italy. Department of English, Harvard University. (Awards and Honors) 1979
Grolier Poetry Prize, Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge, Mass. (Awards and Honors) 1979
Lloyd McKim Garrison Poetry Prize, Department of English, Harvard University. (Awards and Honors) 1979
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Elizabeth Bishop as Teacher" panel. American Literature Association. May 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
The Voices of Women Writers: A symposium sponsored by the Poetry Society of America as the culminating event of a two-year national series on women writers. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Long Poem" panel, AWP Conference. Washington, D.C., March 2011 (upcoming). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Professional Leadership
Administrator/Judge, Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Award, Brooklyn College/CUNY (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2020
Coordinator, MFA Intergenre Reading Series (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2020
Coordinator, MFA Program in Poetry (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2020
Freshman Composition Committee, Department of English (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
Administrator/Judge, American Academy of Poetry College & University Prize, Brooklyn College/CUNY (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Administrator/Judge, Department of English Honors and Awards Committee: Poetry Exegesis Award (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Appointments Committee member, ex officio, Brooklyn College/CUNY Dept. of English, for Rand Distinguished Professor search (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Coordinator, Brooklyn College/CUNY MFA Program in Poetry (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Freshman Composition Committee member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Administrator/Judge, Honors & Awards Committee, Department of English, Poetry Exegesis Award (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Committee Member, Freshman Composition Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Coordinator, MFA Inter-Genre Reading Series (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Coordinator, MFA Program in Poetry (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Administrator/Judge, Academy of American Poets College & University Prize (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Administrator/Judge, Honors and Awards Committee, Department of English, Poetry Exegesis Award (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Coordinator of the Brooklyn College/CUNY MFA Program in Poetry (since 2010). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Freshman Composition Committee member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Administrator/Judge, Honors and Awards Committee, Department of English, Poetry Exegesis Award (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Departmental Outcomes Assessment Project (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Judge, CUNY/LABOR ARTS Competition in Poetry. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2016
Judge, CUNY/LABOR ARTS Competition in Poetry. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2015
Member, Council Library Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Judge, CUNY/LABOR ARTS Competition in Poetry. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2014
Coordinator, M.F.A. in Poetry Program, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Council Library Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Freshman Common Reading Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Honors and Awards Committee, Department of English, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Self-study Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Borough President Marty Markowitz's Commmittee to select a new Brooklyn Poet Laureate. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Community Activities
Hopper House Art Center Book Fair, Nyack, N.Y. 2008
Other Professional Activities
Administrator/Judge, Academy of American Poets University & College Prize 2018
Judge, The Hopwood Poetry Contest, University of Michigan, March/April. 2012