Amy Nawrocki

Prof. Nawrocki teaches Composition and developmental English, and is on full-time assignment to the First Year Studies Program.  She also supervises writing tutorial services at the Academic Resource Center.  She has also taught Poetry Writing, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Fiction, Creative Writing, and Methods of Inquiry.

Prof. Nawrocki conducts workshops for students and teachers, assists with the school literary magazine, Groundswell, and gives poetry readings every year, such as "You Must Change Your Life" with Dick Allen in November 2006.  She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Arkansas in May 2001.

Publications

Prof. Nawrocki has published poems in dozens of online and print journals and magazines.  Her chapbook, Potato Eaters, will be published in 2008 by Finishing Line Press.  Pauline Uchmanowicz, author of Sand & Traffic and the Series Editor of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Prize says this: "In Amy Nawrocki's sensitive, self-assured Potato Eaters an intimate portrait of family life is unearthed and its tenacious roots revealed: deeply personal as well as deeply universal.  A mother-daughter slipknot loosely binds the collection, grounded in domestic settings and situations that unify backyard swing sets and refinanced mortgages, kite flying and grocery shopping.  Fertilized overall by rich, elemental imagery in which the seasons personified may appear as vulnerable yet everlasting, Nawrocki's poems remind one how the child is mother to the woman."

The following is a limited selection of recent publications and awards.

"Annotating the Text."  First Prize.  Litchfield Review Winter 2008 Writing Contest.

Potato Eaters.  Finalist.  2007 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Prize.  Codhill Press.  www.codhill.com

"Noah and the Cave." Honorable Mention, 2007 Brodine Brodinsky Poetry Contest.  Connecticut Poetry Society.   Will be published in the Summer 2008 issue of the Connecticut River Review.

“Hatch the Next Star,” "Occupation of Autumn," "January Thaw." SNReview, August 2007. www.snreview.org

“Moving Day.” Kick the Shadow: the Best of The Flask Review, 2007. www.freewebs.com/theflaskreview/htm

Untitled Tankas. Modern English Tanka, Vol 1, no. 4, Summer 2007. www.modernenglishtanka.com

“Broken Treaties.” War, Literature and the Arts, Autumn 2007.  Vol 18: 1&2.  www.wlajournal.com

"The Wedding Dress.” Powhatan Review, Spring, 2007.

Semifinalist, 2006 Paumanok Poetry Award, The Visiting Writer’s Program, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY.

Honorable Mention, Adelaide Award. Amaze: Cinquain Journal, March 2007.

“Learning to be Drown Proof,” "Sprout." Slow Trains, Fall 2006. www.slowtrains.com

“An Agenda Less Substantial Than Sight.” Blood Orange Review, Vol. I, issue 4, Fall 2006.
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“Some Things Are Better Left.” White Leaf Review, Fall 2006. http://whiteleafpress.co.uk

“The Gift of Soap.” Pawpars, Summer 2006. www.pawpars.org

“Written in the Sand,” "After the Stroke, Beverly Wakes up from a Coma," Gratitude." Flutter, August 2006.

“Leaving Austin,” "The Days of Claires and Jodies." Lily, August 2006. www.lilylitreview.com

“Other Devils,” "The Beauty of Faces." Loch Raven Review, Spring 2006. www.lochravenreview.net