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Maurice Kilwein-Guevara

  • Professor Emeritus, English

Education

  • PhD, English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • MFA, Fiction and Literary Translation, Bowling Green State University
  • BA, English / BS, Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests

  • Modernist and Contemporary Poetry
  • Latina/o Literature(s)
  • Performance Practice and Theory
  • Creative Writing Pedagogy
  • Literature and Medicine
  • Literary Writing
  • Contemporary Poetry Fiction, and Drama/Performance Art
  • U.S. Latina/o Literature(s)
  • The Prose Poem

Related Activities

  • Founding Member, National Latino Writers' Association (NALWA)
  • Former President, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

Selected Publications

Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. POEMA University of Arizona Press. 2009.
Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose New Issues Press. 2001.
Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. “” American Poetry: The Next Generation (2000).
Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. “” Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance Ed. Gonzales, Ray. (1998).
Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. Poems of the River Spirit University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996.
Kilwein Guevara, Maurice A. Postmortem University of Georgia Press. 1994.

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