Kurt Heinzelman

Poetry

In This Our Neighborhood

Something to Call It

Sunrise, Without Trees

Biographical Information

Kurt Heinzelman's published work in literary criticism and history has won awards from Choice (Outstanding Academic Book of the Year) and from the Keats-Shelley Association of North America; and his published poetry has won Pushcart Press recognition and the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award. At Texas he has been nominated repeatedly for such undergraduate and graduate teaching awards as the Dad's Association Teaching Award, the Harry Ransom Teaching Award, the President's Associates' Teaching Award, and the Association of Graduate Students of English Teaching Award. He has poems forthcoming in Southwest Review, Raritan, Marlboro Review, and Notre Dame Review.

Books

• The Halfway Tree (poems). Verser Press, 2000
• Romans and Romantics. Editor, special issue of Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 1991
• The Economics of the Imagination. University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
  

Influences Cited in this Interview

James Tate - "In My Own Backyard"

Interviewer

Jenny Browne

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