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Amy Newman

Professor

Creative Writing, 20th Century British and American Literature

Office: ZH 1005
Phone: 753-6651
Email: anewman@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. Ohio University, 1992

M.A. Ohio University, 1987


Professional Interests


Amy Newman has published over 200 poems in North America, England, Italy, and Romania. Poems have been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, and Sentence's An Introduction to the Prose Poem. A recipient of three Individual Artists Fellowships and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, she is editor of Ancora Imparo, the journal of arts, process, and remnant.
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Selected Publications

  • Dear Editor. Persea Books, 2011.
  • Essays and poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Hotel Amerika, The Georgia Review, Witness, Storyscape, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Seneca Review, Image, The Laurel Review, Willow Springs, Sentence, Born Magazine, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere.
  • Editor of the journal Ancora Imparo http://www.ancoraimparo.org
  • The BirdGirl Handbook. GreenTower Press, 2006.
  • fall. Wesleyan University Press, 2004; 2nd ed. 2006.
  • Camera Lyrica. Alice James Books, 1999.
  • Order, or Disorder. Cleveland State University, 1995.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 609.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH207
Fall 2013ENGL 301.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH209
Fall 2013ENGL 201.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH209
Spring 2013ENGL 401.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH 205
Fall 2011ENGL 301.0001 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH 302
Fall 2011ENGL 475.0001 (details)
TTH / 3:30 - 4:45 / RH 302
Fall 2011ENGL 666.0001 (details)
M / 3:00-5:40 / RH 207
Spring 2012ENGL 401.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 475.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH305
Fall 2012ENGL 301.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH207
Fall 2012ENGL 475.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH202
Fall 2012ENGL 609.1 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH209
Spring 2013ENGL 200.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH 205