birth_place birth_date genre article_title name
suffern , new york 17 may 1982 poetry joseph fasano
 joseph fasano
joseph fasano

joseph fasano -lrb- born 1982 -rrb- is an american poet .
fasano was raised in goshen , new york , where he attended goshen central high school .
he earned a ba in philosophy from harvard university in 2005 and an mfa from columbia university in 2008 .
his poem `` mahler in new york '' won the 2008 rattle poetry prize .
he has been a finalist for the missouri review editors ' prize and the times literary supplement poetry competition , among other honors .
he has taught at suny purchase , manhattanville college , and columbia university .
fasano 's poems have appeared in the yale review , the southern review , field , tin house , boston review , measure , passages north , the american literary review , and other publications .
in 2011 , fasano 's first book , `` fugue for other hands '' , won the cider press review book award .
it was nominated for the kate tufts poetry award , and it has recently been nominated for the poets ' prize , `` awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living american poet two years prior to the award . ''
his second collection of poems , `` inheritance '' , was released in may , 2014 .
in 2015 , fasano published `` vincent , '' a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of tim mclean by vince li on a greyhound bus near portage la prairie , manitoba , on the trans canada highway .
in 2013 , the literary magazine polutona released a selection of his poems in russian translation .
