Madeleine Cravens is an American poet. In 2024, she released her debut poetry collection, Pleasure Principle, with Scribner.
Early life and education
editCravens grew up and lived in Brooklyn for much of her life. In Metal, Cravens shared that "Dream Song 14" was one of the first poems that "opened something up for me" and moved her toward poetry.[1] Later, she attended the MFA program at Columbia University and was a Max Rivto Poetry Fellow. She graduated in 2022.[2]
Career
editCravens' poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, and others.[3][4] Her book reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares, and others.[5][6]
Cravens was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2022 to 2024. There, while navigating her transition from New York to California, she extensively worked with teacher Louise Glück on the poems that would comprise her debut poetry collection.[7]
Cravens published her debut poetry collection, Pleasure Principle, in 2024 with Scribner. Many of the poems were written when Cravens was 24 and 25.[8] The title is derived from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud which Cravens read in graduate school.[9] Among other things, the book's poems concern the duality between hedonism and monasticism: "I'm interested in the relief of verbalization, of giving in to an impulse, and also in the tension created by obfuscating this urge."[10] Publishers Weekly called the book "occasionally uneven" but said it "successfully delivers the eros and disorder of young adult life."[11] The Adroit Journal said it was "a powerhouse of a book that announces Cravens as a major new voice in American poetry."[12]
References
edit- ^ "Madeleine Cravens". Metal Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Cochran, Lisa (April 18, 2024). "Writing Alumna Madeleine Cravens '22 Publishes New Poetry Collection, 'Pleasure Principle'". Columbia University.
- ^ Cravens, Madeleine (2023-12-25). "Leaving". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Cravens, Madeleine. "Sonnet with Two Bridges". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Cravens, Madeleine (2024-07-30). "Citizenship, Persona, and Testimony: Hafizah Geter's Un-American". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Cravens, Madeleine (2022-02-15). "States of Unknowing in Paul Tran's All the Flowers Kneeling". Ploughshares. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Madeleine Cravens by Claudia Ross". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "On creating a school for yourself". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Fisher, C. Francis (2024-10-10). "Desire Lines". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Short Conversations with Poets: Madeleine Cravens". McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Pleasure Principle by Madeleine Cravens". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Agarau, Adedayo (2024-07-03). "A Review of Madeleine Cravens's Pleasure Principle". Retrieved 2024-11-24.