↑ Interview with Matthea Harvey, Tarpaulin Sky, August 2006.↑ Poetry Foundation Interview with Matthea Harvey.
The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel).If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?: Poems and images.Of Lamb (illustrated by Amy Jean Potter).The Golden Age of Figure Heads (illustrated by Amber McMillan).No One Will See Themselves in You (illustrated by Doug McNamara).Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form.Modern Life earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book. all the more surprising coming from a writer whose sensibility seems so resistant to our usual ideas about 'political poetry.' " Recognition Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's Modern Life, as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the “Terror of the Future” and “The Future of Terror,” as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment." Although Harvey has said that she "didn’t set out to write political poems," but to explore "that idea of living in the middle of contradiction-in the grey area, between yes and no," the two poems were nonetheless acclaimed by The New York Times as "among the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political atmosphere. She has published poems in literary magazines including The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review. She has published 3 collections, including Modern Life ( Graywolf Press, 2007). Harvey has served as the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary, as well as a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB.
She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey, and is married to editor Rob Casper. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Harvey was born in Germany, and grew up in England and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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