15 Facts About Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor.

Nathaniel Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

Nathaniel Mackey has been editor and publisher of Hambone since 1982 and he won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2006.

Nathaniel Mackey was born in 1947 in Miami, Florida and moved to California at age three when his parents split.

Nathaniel Mackey visited Princeton University as a high school student along with Gene Washington where he was able to see live jazz in Manhattan.

In 1970, Nathaniel Mackey enrolled in Stanford University for his doctorate.

Nathaniel Mackey's dissertation was about the Black Mountain poets and the poetry they created with the human rhythms of breath and utterance.

Nathaniel Mackey held that position until 2010 when he moved with his family to North Carolina to take a position at Duke University.

Nathaniel Mackey's poetry combines African mythology, African-American musical traditions, and Modernist poetic experiment.

Nathaniel Mackey has published five volumes of an ongoing prose project entitled From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate.

In 1974, Nathaniel Mackey became an editor of the poetry journal Hambone, later becoming the sole editor and publisher in 1982.

Nathaniel Mackey is the author of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, an influential book of literary theory, and more recently of Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews.

Nathaniel Mackey co-edited Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose with Art Lange.

At Stanford, Nathaniel Mackey met Gloria Jean Watkins, whom he dated until the mid 1980s.

Nathaniel Mackey married Pascale Gaitet, a specialist in French literature, in 1991.