Tall If (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Mark Irwin's poetry and essays have appeared widely in  many literary magazines including The American Poetry  Review, The  Atlantic, Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Paris  Review, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, and the  New Republic. The  author of five previous collections of poetry, The Halo of  Desire (1987), Against the Meanwhile, Wesleyan University  Press  (1989), Quick, Now, Always, BOA (1996), White City, BOA  (2000), and Bright Hunger, BOA (2004), he has also  translated two  volumes of poetry, one from the French and one from the  Romanian. Recognition for his work includes The  Nation/Discovery  Award, four Pushcart Prizes, National Endowment for the  Arts and Ohio Art Council Fellowships, two Colorado Council  for the  Arts Fellowships, two Colorado Book Awards, the James  Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Fulbright,  Lilly, and  Wurlitzer Foundations. He lives in Colorado, and Los  Angeles, where he currently teaches in the Graduate  Creative Writing  Program at the University of Southern California.