Catherine Imbriglio

Catherine Imbriglio is an American poet.

Life

Catherine was born and lives in Rhode Island. She graduated from Regis College, Boston College, Brown University, M.A. (creative writing), and Ph.D. 1995. She teaches at Brown University.

Her work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Caliban, Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Conjunctions, Contemporary Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, First Intensity, Indiana Review, New American Writing, No: A Journal of the Arts, Pleiades, WebConjunctions.

Awards

• 2008 Norma Farber First Book Award Parts of the Mass
• Untermeyer fellowship in poetry
• merit award in poetry from the RI State Council on the Arts
• Brown University UCS award for excellence in teaching.

Work

• "Loop the Loop Intimacy; To the Letter Intimacy". conjunctions.

Poetry

• Parts of the Mass. Burning Deck. 2007. ISBN 978-1-886224-81-0.

Intimacy. Center for Literary Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-885635-33-4.

Anthologies

• The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, ed. Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

Reviews

Catherine Imbriglio's Parts of the Mass-a collection that trembles with the passion of the Catholic liturgy-resonates like a well-struck tuning fork. Imbriglio has so heavily infused these poems with the sounds and rhythms of the Mass that the book becomes a testament to divinely-used language comingling with secular, everyday forms.

Catherine Imbriglio is an extravagantly talented poet. Her work has a rare boldness of attack and scope, both conceptual and emotional. Informed by the work of John Ashbery (on whom she wrote her doctoral dissertation at Brown University, where she also received her MA in creative writing), of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Emily Dickinson, and the English Metaphysicals (who, like her, delighted in reuniting the disparate, torn pieces of this world into unexpected wholes), she has forged a unique and unmistakable poetic idiom.