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November 12, 2007

Nathaniel Mackey named 2007 recipient of UCSD's Roy Harvey Pearce Prize

By Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2495; srapp@ucsc.edu

Literature professor Nathaniel Mackey is the recipient of the 2007 Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, awarded biennially by the Archive for New Poetry at the University of California, San Diego.

The Pearce Prize honors an individual who has obtained wide acclaim both as a poet and as a scholar of contemporary American poetics. It is named for Roy Harvey Pearce, founder of UCSD’s Archive for New Poetry, one of the most extensive collections of experimental American writing in the world. The prize was established in 1995 to pay homage to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s concept of the poet-scholar.

Mackey received a 2006 National Book Award in the poetry category for his book Splay Anthem Currents story. He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1993 and was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in 2001, one of the highest honors in the field of poetry. Mackey was also selected by faculty members in 2006 to deliver the 39th annual Faculty Research Lecture at UCSC in recognition of his "extraordinary accomplishments in many fields of scholarly and creative activity."

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