essayistpoetpoptheorist
“Reading Devine is modern dance.”
Tupelo Quarterly
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Awards
I’ve won awards and support across disciplines. Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry (Ohio State UP) won the Gournay Prize for Creative Nonfiction. I’ve been a Dickson Fellow (UCLA-Art History), a National Endowment for the Humanities recipient, and a finalist for the Zuckerman Prize for American Studies (U Penn). The New York State Council on the Arts has twice supported me with grants in Nonfiction and Interdisciplinary Practice.
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Pop Humanities
I spin signs at the intersection of the pop culture and the public humanities. You’ll find me across venues high and low, including American Literature, Adaptation, Talkhouse, American Songwriter, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, The Millions, Measure, and elsewhere.
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Creative
Commonweal: “Sometimes [Devine's] writing resembles prose, sometimes poetry, often something in-between.” (It’s true.) Recent poems have appeared in Literary Matters (“Church Going,” “Chubby Checker”) and New Verse Review (“Stuck Inside a Mary Oliver Poem with the Milton Blues Again”). For an ‘in-between’ essay (“Andy Warhol as Puzzle,” see below :)
Recent Work
“Call it our post-Covid icon. Representing, who knows?, something we learned before: how to connect, how to endure. If love is the felt experience of unity, you can do much worse than slowly–very slowly–working on a Warhol puzzle with your daughter”.
“It contains multitudes…”
"Linguistic playfulness, T.S. Eliot mixing it up with Snooki, is typical of Devine's method. (In one section, he puts John Donne in conversation with Kendrick Lamar.) The writing resembles prose, sometimes poetry, often something in-between." —Anthony Domestico, Commonweal