A prose poem, a mix tape, a mash up
I am ____.
Winner of the Gournay Prize for Creative Nonfiction
WARHOL’S MOTHER’S PANTRY: ART, AMERICA, AND THE MOM IN POP
My debut book of essays by Mad Creek Books (Ohio State UP) is out now. The advisory board for the 21st Century Essays Series includes the leading stylists of today (Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Wayne Koestenbaum).
For a peek into the contents of the pantry, scroll down.
Shop the Pantry (below) to order the book.
Devine channel surfs the cultural waves of the long twentieth century—
—its poetry, prose, film, music, photography, and art—
as they break on the shores of pop.
—Mike Chasar, Poetry Unbound
in the pantry
noname cohen beastieboys larkin djrenegade scorsese warhola basquiat haring joyce donne lamar berryman tyehimbajess arcadefire phifedawg parker dylan greathouse strand deutsch crane abdurraqib duchamp freund cartier-bresson eimearmcbride whitman
selected writings:
LYRICS
“Share, “All in my Head,” “All I Do is Win,” Measure (Fall 2017)
POP
“Introducing ‘Warhol/Warhola,’ a short essay, video premiere, and album announcement by lyricist M.I. Devine,” Talkhouse (2020)
“Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Or, Pop in the Age of Bird Box,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2019)
“After Winter: Leonard Cohen, Rostam, Noname,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2018)
POETICS
“Wait for it: On Michael Robbins and Refrains,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2017)
“What to Do About the Teenage Philip Larkin?” Measure (Fall 2015)
FILM & AMERICAN STUDIES
“Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat,’ Ashcan Art, and Early Cinema,” Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity (2017)
“‘An Art That Won’t Behave’: Film and the Seven Arts, 1907–1921,” American Literature (2012)
in journals
American Literature, Adaptation, Measure, William Carlos Williams Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of Experiential Education
& books
Sensationalism and The Genealogy of Modernity, Teaching Tainted Lit, The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television
prizes & awards
Northern New York Filmmaker Award, Snowtown Film Festival, 2020
Gournay Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Ohio State University Press, 2019
State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018
National Endowment for the Humanities Award, 2016
Finalist, Zuckerman Prize for American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Dickinson Fellowship, Art History, UCLA 2010