John T. Casteen IV
Assistant Professor, General Faculty, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Monroe Hill Range 100
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 1:00-3:00, by appointment through Collab
Class Schedule: MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM
Degrees
MFA-- Poetry, Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1996
BA, University of Virginia, 1993
Books
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Rhythm and Blues, manuscript complete, 2016
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For the Mountain Laurel, University of Georgia Press, 2011
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Free Union, University of Georgia Press, 2009
Anthology Inclusions
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Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, ed. Lisa Russ Spaar, University of Virginia Press, 2016
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Literature and its Writers, ed. Ann Charters, St. Martin's, 2012
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The Rumpus Poetry Anthology, ed. Brian Spears, 2012
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The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright, Scribner, 2009
Selected Recent Poems
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"Poem," The Southern Review, Winter 2019.
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“At Forty,” “Dining Alone,” “On the Set of My Life as a Variety Show,” The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Fall 2018
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"The Punchline," Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2017
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“Boxing Day,” “Echt,” “Kingfisher,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2017
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"Sex Among Equals," Fence, Winter 2016
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"Rhythm and Blues," The Southern Review, Spring 2015
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"Passage," Shenandoah, August 2012
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"Nocturne: Redaction," The Paris Review, Summer 2009
Selected Recent Essays, Reviews, & Interdisciplinary Projects
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"Memory / Viajar," essay-film in progress
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"The Imaginary City," Field Notes, Spring 2015
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"Surfacing," Offline, January 2014
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"Midfield," The Morning News, May 2013
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"So History Begins With Us," VQR, Fall 2013
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"On Denis Johnson's 'The Incognito Lounge,'" Voltage Poetry, April 2013
Honors & Awards
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Visiting Artist Faculty in Residence, New York University, 2009-2016
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Mednick Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, 2014
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Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2013, 2014, 2015
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Sweet Briar College Faculty Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 2013
Recent Presentations
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Havana International Poetry Festival, Havana, Cuba, June 2018
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Roundtable on Leontia Flynn’s The Radio, American Conference for Irish Studies, Cork, Ireland, June 2018
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Lead Panelist, "Honoring Charles Wright at 80," 2015 AWP Conference, Minneapolis, Mn.
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Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University, 2014
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Sweet Briar College & James Madison University Creative Writing Conference Presentations, 2009-2016