CURRICULUM VITAE
Anthony Opal, Chicago, IL
anthonyopal@gmail.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2014
B.A. English Literature, Elmhurst University, Elmhurst, IL, 2010
EDITORSHIPS
The Economy Magazine + Press, Founder / Editor-in-Chief, 2012 - present
TAG, Co-Founder and Co-Editor, 2013 - 2014
TriQuarterly, Chapbook Review Editor, Northwestern University, 2012
TriQuarterly, Reader, Northwestern University, 2011 - 2012
River Oak Review, Associate Poetry Editor, Elmhurst College, 2009 - 2010
BOOKS
Full-Length
Action. Opal, Anthony.
Paperback, 72 pp, 8 x 5 in. Punctum/Peanut Books, Brooklyn, 2014.
ISBN: 978-0-6923355-4-3
The Roof Above Our Heads. Opal, Anthony.
Booklet, 68 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2021.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-0-3
Chapbooks
Procession. Opal, Anthony.
Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-1-2
Another Animal. Opal, Anthony.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-8-9
Translations
Poems of Matsuo Basho. Basho, Matsuo. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy
Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0
Poems of Kobayashi Issa. Issa, Kobayashi. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The
Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Six Phrases. Soha, Hatano. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press,
Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-0-5
Poems of Yosa Buson. Buson, Yosa. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy
Press, Chicago, 2021.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-1-0
Poems of Taneda Santoka. Santoka, Taneda. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy
Press, Chicago, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-3-4
Poems of Masaoka Shiki. Shiki, Masaoka. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy
Press, Chicago, 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-9-6
Poems of Matsuo Basho ii. Basho, Matsuo. Translated by Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy
Press, Chicago, 2023.
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-2-6
Edited Editions
The Economy Magazine Anthology: MMXII - MMXV, Volumes 1-7.
Armantrout,
Rae et al. Anthony Opal, editor.
Booklet, 7 vols, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-3-6
To Ask Forgiveness of the Birds: The Words of Father Zossima.
Dostoevsky,
Fyodor. Trans. Constance Garnett. Anthony Opal, editor.
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-2-9
Iurodstvo: Reflections on Foolishness.
Feit, Ken. Anthony Opal, editor.
Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-9-8
Live Oak, with Moss: Reconstructing the Early Calamus Sequence.
Whitman, Walt. Anthony Opal, editor.
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2020.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-7-4
Versions of Jonah: The Ancient Story of Jonah in Arabic,
Ethiopic, Greek,
Hebrew, Syriac, and English.
Anonymous. Translator/editor, Anthony Opal.
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press,
Chicago, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-4-3
ST iv & LT v: A Revelation of Divine Love.
Julian of Norwich. Anthony Opal, editor.
Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in. The Economy Press, Chicago, 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-7-2
JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS
Wave Composition (Issue 12, February 2017)
“And They Bare It”
“Eventual Parable”
“We Are Now Allowed to Touch”
Poetry for Patients (April 2016)
Poetry Foundation / Northwestern Memorial Hospital
“Sonnet”
The EcoTheo Review (November 7, 2014)
“Son of how Waves are Spun”
Intercourse (Issue 3, Fall 2014)
“The bird’s on a feeding tube, but it still”
Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Vol. 42, Numbers 3 and 4, Summer/Autumn 2014)
“Mummies”
“Outside the Monastery”
Cream City Review (Volume 37.2, Fall/Winter 2013-14)
“God on the mountain. A fountain of birds”
“The total wonder of the mute other”
Nonsite (Issue 11: Photography and Philosophy, Winter 2014)
“A bird flies out from the mouth of the tomb’s”
“The wolf prowls the hills, kills what it kills”
Notre Dame Review (Number 37, Winter/Spring 2014
“God proctors the exam, does a headstand”
“Grace of the dog’s white pawed feet is the first”
Birdfeast (Issue 9, Winter 2014)
“Above the mule’s head explodes the dream”
Five Quarterly (Fall 2013)
“A dribble of crazy blood from the mouth”
TAG (Phase 1, Fall 2013)
“Three Poems From Last January”
The Christian Century (September 18, 2013)
“if suffering doesn’t bring about”
“joyous G-d with a diphthong for a heart”
Apt Magazine (July 2013)
“no longer allowed inside the temple”
“oh dear god-and-a-half dear action painter”
Horse Less Review (Issue 15, July 2013)
“A cartoon of Spider-Man looking like”
“In love with the onceness of your truncated”
“My thesis remains the same. Some rain”
“St. Stephen leaves his sleeves rolled up wherein”
“Tender is the night as potholes fill”
Interrupture (Issue 8, June 2013)
“the naked body my naked body”
“one hair’s width is what separates Sanskrit”
Alice Blue Review (Issue 20, Summer 2013)
“alas saying yes yes this is a good”
“hello skirmish of bright red fire ants you”
Newcity (May 23 & 30, 2013)
“bird beak like a rawhide bone remains”
“my Beatrice touches the trees as she”
“the scaffolding of a butterfly boat”
ILK (Issue 9, May 2013)
“Groping for God, indistinguishable”
“Safe in the curved cleft of sleep, I watch God’s”
“The trees are made of wood. Strange to see this”
Euphony (Spring 2013)
“the softest sound is the turning down of”
Sixth Finch (Spring 2013)
“I take my medication and then fall”
Letters (Issue 1, April 2013)
“as snow falls from a foreboding syntax”
“as the sunlight goes fractal your hand moves”
“I hope that like a hatchback bird at least”
“sunlight in every city is different”
Poetry (Vol. 201, Number 6, March 2013)
“you have lipstick on your collar I say”
Pank (Issue 8, Spring 2013)
“have you seen the hippo’s mouth open and”
Jellyfish Magazine (Issue 8, Winter 2013)
“mimicking the landscape of the mind or”
“moments when G-d seems hollow she’s a bowl”
Arsenic Lobster (Issue 30, Winter 2012)
“Job finds himself angry as a blueberry”
“one day I will die of inspiration”
InDigest Magazine (Issue 25, Winter 2012)
“Sequence Collapse”
Prick of the Spindle (Vol. 6.4, Winter 2012)
“Hark”
Corium Magazine (Issue 11, Fall 2012)
“a paper airplane made of fractals is”
The Innisfree Poetry Journal (Issue 15, Fall 2012)
“Whatever it is that stencils the night wind”
The Pinch (Issue 32.2, Fall 2012)
“Midwesterner ii”
“Morning Communion”
Softblow (September 2012)
“and who am I to not slowly fashion”
“I invite the coyote in and give him”
“if there are symbols for numbers then”
“stick to the image of an owl or”
The Christian Century (August 8, 2012)
“so the angel Gabriel kept his word”
Nano Fiction (Vol. 5, Number 2, 2012)
“Hawk and Me”
Elimae (July / August 2012)
“Reverse Curse”
Decomp Magazine (July 2012)
“agnus dei the spray of the slip-n-slide”
2River View (Vol. 16.4, Summer 2012)
“Fragments”
Lilliput Review (Number 187, Summer 2012)
“The Darkness”
Country Music (Issue 4, 2012)
“a fly looks like something that exploded”
“daylight reconstructs the sign of Jonah”
“some bird literally walking from one”
Jet Fuel Review (Issue 3, Spring 2012)
“everything is off and I am the snow”
“G-d’s violence held to the diving bell as”
“I used to write lines about it raining”
The Greensboro Review (Number 91, Spring 2012)
“The Transfiguration of Eve”
The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 53, Number 3, Spring 2012)
“Land Map Fire”
“With Contact”
Permafrost (Vol. 34.2, Spring 2012)
“The Transfiguration”
After Hours (Issue 24, Winter 2012)
“After Jean”
Interrupture (February 2012)
“Genesis Poem”
Meridian (Issue 28, January 2012)
“Madison and State”
Jabberwock Review (Vol. 31.2, Winter 2011)
“The Birds of Home”
Louisiana Literature (Vol. 28.2, 2011)
“Lady of Burma”
Inch (Issue 16, Fall 2011)
“Wing Note”
Nerve Cowboy (Number 23, Fall 2011)
“This Morning at the Library”
The South Carolina Review (Vol. 44, Number 1, Fall 2011)
“To Ashbery”
Boston Review (September / October 2011)
“Yes”
Notre Dame Review (Issue 32, Summer / Fall 2011)
“Arcing”
“Common Era”
Poet Lore (Vol. 106, Number 3 / 4, 2011)
“Denver”
“This Morning at the Library”
After Hours (Issue 23, Summer 2011)
“Christmas Eve”
The Progressive (June 2011)
“The Sun Set”
Lake Effect (Volume 15, Spring 2011)
“Foster Avenue”
Wisconsin Review (Vol. 15, Issue 1, Spring 2011)
“Husbandry”
Zone 3 (Spring 2011)
“Young and Alive”
Spoon River Poetry Review (Issue 36.1, Spring 2011)
“Today”
Salamander (Vol. 16, Number 2, 2011)
“Hidden Love”
New Madrid (Winter 2011)
“Midwesterner”
“The Sky Holds Darkness”
Euphony (January 2011)
“Incarnation”
First Things (December 2010)
“Oil in the Gulf, 2010”
The Chaffin Journal (2010)
“Enigmatic Terrain”
Sugar House Review (Number 3, Fall / Winter 2010)
“On the Lack of Sirens Heard”
“Hades”
Redivider (Issue 8.1, Fall 2010)
“St. Thomas”
Polaris (Vol.54, Fall 2010)
“On the Wooden Nature of Clay Birds”
The Christian Century (November 2, 2010)
“Bagatelle Sans Tonalité”
The Benefactor (Summer / Fall 2010)
“The Bird and The Feather”
“Visualis”
After Hours (Issue 20-21, Summer 2010)
“In Requiem”
Harpur Palate (Vol. 10.1, Summer 2010)
“corpus christi”
Chicago Quarterly Review (Vol.13, 2010)
“Monk’s Thought”
The Christian Century (June 29, 2010)
“The Year of the Cicada”
The South Carolina Review (Vol. 42, Number 2, Spring 2010)
“I Waited for You in the Rain”
Rhino (2010)
“The Mauve Soap in the White Dish”
Nano Fiction (Vol. 2, Number 2, 2009)
“Homes”
North Central Review (Spring 2009)
“Albany Park”
Whistling Shade (Winter 2008)
“Fall Obscenities”
Coe Review (Vol. 39, Number 1, Fall 2008)
“Oh Captain”
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, PRESS
Fence Digital - Constant Critic (September 9, 2023)
“On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese”
Poetryseen.com (May 18, 2014)
“ACTION, trailer”
Bad at Sports, Edition #22 (January 21, 2014)
“The Weekly Debuts with Hilarious Email Chain”
Newcity (July 2013)
“Journal-Isms: A Bright Future for The Economy”
The Conversant (June 2013)
“Anthony Opal Interviewed by Luke A. Fidler”
Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog (March 2013)
“Reading List: March 2013”
TriQuarterly (February 2012)
“Brooklyn Copeland Interviewed by Anthony Opal”
Sharkforum (July 2011)
“Review of Christian Wiman’s Every Riven Thing”
TriQuarterly (June 2011)
“Nate Klug Interviewed by Anthony Opal”
Sharkforum / Jet Fuel Review (2011 – 2013)
“Interview with Brian Barker”
“Interview with Hadara Bar-Nadav”
“Interview with Nikky Finney”
“Interview with Rebecca Hazelton”
“Interview with Dean Rader”
“Interview with Nomi Stone”
READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
Poetry Seminar, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
(January 28, 2020) Northwestern Memorial Hospital, McGaw Pavilion,
240 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611
Reading with Maggie Smith (July 9, 2015)
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60601
Reading with Nate Klug (June 19, 2015)
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
Reading with Anthony Madrid (April 23, 2015)
City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie Blvd., Chicago, IL 60647
Reading with Simone Muench (April 13, 2015)
Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
Punctum Reading: Anthony Opal and Snežana Žabić (February 27, 2015)
Sector 2337 Bookstore and Gallery, 2337 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
Chicago IL 60647
Graduate Reading Series, Northwestern University (July 13, 2014)
City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie Blvd., Chicago, IL 60647
“The Drama of Leisure,” Gallery talk with Sofia Leiby (January 18, 2014)
Devening Projects + Editions, 3039 W. Carroll, Chicago, IL 60612
Annual Teacher’s Conference, Every Nation Academy (June 1–15, 2010)
Every Nation Academy, Bo, Sierra Leone, West Africa
AWARDS
Distinguished Thesis Award, “OTHERS,” Northwestern University, 2014
(Advisors: Reginald Gibbons, Michael Robbins)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist, The Poetry Foundation, 2012
Pushcart Prize nominee, “The Birds of Home,” Jabberwock Review, 2012
AWP Intro Award nominee, “Sonnet,” Northwestern University, 2011
CERTIFICATES
TESOL - Foundational, 2019
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
LANGUAGES
English, Ancient Greek