Jayson Iwen

Dr. Jayson
Iwen

Professor & Dept. Chair
Writing, Language & Literature
Writing
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Phone: 715-394-8076
Office: Swenson Hall 3046

About

Jayson Iwen’s book Roze & Blud won the 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Additionally, he won the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest for A Momentary Jokebook and the Emergency Press International Book Contest for Six Trips in Two Directions.

His collaborative translation of Jawdat Fakhreddine’s Lighthouse for the Drowning was published in BOA Editions’ Lannan Translation Series, and his selected, translated poems of Salim Barakat is forthcoming with Seagull Books. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in scores of journals, including Cream City Review, New American Writing, Nimrod, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pleiades, Tikkun, Water~Stone Review, and World Literature Today. Iwen also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the online journal New Theory (new-theory.net).

Publications

  • Iwen, J. (2013). Gnarly Wounds. Emergency Press.
  • Iwen, J. (2008). A Momentary Jokebook. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Iwen, J. (2013a). Six Trips in Two Directions. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Fakhreddine, H., & Iwen, J. (2017). Lighthouse for the Drowning. BOA Editions Limited.
  • Iwen, J. (Ed.) (2006). 101 Selected Poems. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Iwen, J. Jawdat Haydar: Toward a Transnational Poetics. Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy: Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language, and Transcendence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 25-34.
  • Iwen, J. (2016) 1.4.1. 1.4.2. 1.4.3. Painted Bride Quarterly (95).
  • Iwen, J. (2016). 2.1.1. 2.1.3. 4.2.2. Eureka Literary Magazine (21). 16-18.
  • Iwen, J. (2015). 2.4.1. 2.4.2. 2.4.3. 2.4.4. Ovenbird Poetry (2).
  • Iwen, J. (2014). Making Up Time in Indiana. Things This Thing Called I Loved. The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (pp. 137-139). Lake Forest College Press.
  • Iwen, J. (2014). Love #9. The Frequency of Higher Registers. Clackamas Literary Review (18). 76-78.
  • Iwen, J. (2014). Wholly in the World. Red Cedar (16). 7.
  • Iwen, J. (2012). Things This Thing Called I Loved. Express Milwaukee.
  • Iwen, J. (2010-11). Love #33. Love #40. Love #47. Estuary (13). 103-107.
  • Iwen, J. (2010). Interesting. One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe. Sarabande Books. 123-125.
  • Iwen, J. (2010). The Summer I Entered My Data into Your System. Humon at Bat. Killing Time in the Library with a Candlestick. Congratulations. Folly. 31-34.
  • Iwen, J. (2010). Love #22. Love #25. Love #26. Twisted Ink Webzine (University of Montana Western).
  • Iwen, J. (2009). Love #24. The Dos Passos Review (6)(1). 61.
  • Iwen, J. (2009). Love #4. Whiskey Island Magazine (6). 12.
  • Iwen, J. (2005). Two Way Walkie-Talkie. Not To Make a Big Deal Out of Death. Onthebus (19/20). 115.
  • Iwen, J. (2005). Sleepwalker. The Pacific Review (23). 31.
  • Iwen, J. (2004). 10. Water~Stone Review (7). 226.
  • Iwen, J. 60. Diagram (4.6).
  • Iwen, J. (2004). 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Letter. Dark a Hole Deeper Than History. Introduction to the Zajalin. Knock.  (featured writer), Fall 2004: 1-9.
  • Iwen, J. (2004). 51. 62. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (23). 45-46.
  • Iwen, J. (2004). 86. 88. 89. Reed Magazine (57). 48-50.
  • Iwen, J. (2003/04). Orange. Fence. 86.
  • Iwen, J. (2003). 2. 4. 5. Third Coast. 49-51.
  • Iwen, J. (2003). Horse-hair Worms. Property Tax. Reed Magazine (56). 57-60.
  • Iwen, J. (Winter 2002 – Spring 2008). Fossil Fuel and the Transubstantiation of Light. Checkpoint Economy. Use. Run Like Hell. 67 Mercedes Benz. Flag. Emergency Almanac.
  • Iwen, J. (2002). Practice. Clackamas Literary Review (6) (1). 17.
  • Iwen, J. (2000). Continental Drift. New American Writing (18). 192.
  • Iwen, J. (2000). Ghosts. Southern Indiana Review (7). 15.
  • Iwen, J. (2000). Force that Through the Blue Fuse Drives the Flower. Blue Canary (8). 16.
  • Iwen, J. (1999). These Are Words. Milwaukee Orbit (3). 4.
  • Iwen, J. (1998). The Poet in the Landscape. The Poet in the Minnesota. Blue Canary (7). 23-28.
  • Iwen, J. (1997). In April. Poetry Motel (24). 2403.

Education

  • 2002 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • 1998 – Master of Arts (M.A.) – English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • 1996 – Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – English Literature, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay