Degrees

Ph.D., Florida State University; M.F.A, University of Memphis; M.A., Indiana University; B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University

Short Bio

Mark Yakich is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where he is also editor of New Orleans Review. He is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), Green Zone New Orleans (Press Street 2008), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008), and Checking In/Checking Out (NO Books). With Christopher Schaberg, he is also co-founder and co-editor of airplanereading.org, a new media project that aims to rejunvenate airplane reading. Mark's writing and research interests include poetry and politics, experimental poetics, and art and writing. In spring 2012, Mark was a Fulbright Fellow in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon.

Courses Taught

• Reading Poetry
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Modern Poetry
• Writing Poetry
• Poetry Workshop: Series, Sequence, Chapbook
• Editing & Publishing
• Special Topics: Unreliable Narrators and Authors
• Honors: Words, Images, Politics
• Senior Thesis/Honors Thesis

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