Poetry. Working within the frame of her native New England, Julie Agoos positions herself in her new book, PROPERTY, less as a first-person lyric speaker than as an acute listener to the layered history of small and large violences which ignite repeatedly in American life. Structured as a progression of poems which invoke the "genres" of oral history, gossip, legal transcript, and diary writing, Property arrives, in the long poem "Deposition," at the story of a particular, explosive, and horrific local crime. Born in Boston in 1956, Julie Agoos is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Above the Land (Yale University Press, 1987) and Calendar Year (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). She taught for eight years as a lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and, since 1994, in the English department and MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College/CUNY, where she is an associate professor. She lives in Nyack, New York.

Julie Agoos is the author of three collections of poetry. She received a BA from Harvard University and an MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. She taught for eight years as a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and is now an Associate professor at Brooklyn College/CUNY.