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Joshua Corey is a writer, known for his works as a poet, critic, translator, and author of such books like Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy and How Long Is Now. He is a Gen-Xer from New Jersey, who spent his twenties and thirties moving around the country pursuing various literary degrees.
Personal webpage of poet and fiction writer Joshua Corey, author of Beautiful Soul, The Barons, Severance Songs.
Author of Hannah and the Master (MadHat Press) and the novel How Long Is Now (Spuyten Duyvil Press). Professor of English at Lake Forest College. Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture, with a particularly obsessive interest in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.
Born in New York and raised in northern New Jersey, poet Joshua Corey earned a BA at Vassar College, an MA and MFA at the University of Montana, and a PhD at Cornell University. Influenced by Charles Olson, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Duncan, Corey pushes formal structure toward fracture, engaging…
Joshua Corey is the author of The Barons (Omnidawn, 2014); Severance Songs (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner of the Dorset Prize; Fourier Series (Spineless Books, 2005); and Selah (Barrow Street Press, 2003), selected by Robert Pinsky as the winner of the Barrow Street Press Book Prize.
“Equal parts family drama, travelogue, and literary mystery, Joshua Corey’s How Long Is Now is a poetic rumination on art and loss.” — Nick Rees Gardner, Independent Book Review
Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture, with a particularly obsessive interest in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels. Click to read Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, by Joshua Corey, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
