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“Devine’s writing resembles prose, sometimes poetry, often something in-between.”
—Commonweal
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Awards
I’ve won awards and support across disciplines. Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry (Ohio State UP) won the Gournay Prize for Creative Nonfiction. I’ve been a Dickson Fellow (UCLA-Art History), a National Endowment for the Humanities recipient, and a finalist for the Zuckerman Prize for American Studies (U Penn). The New York State Council on the Arts has twice supported me with grants in Nonfiction and Interdisciplinary Practice.
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Pop Humanities
You’ll find me across venues high and low, including American Literature, Adaptation, Talkhouse, American Songwriter, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, The Millions, Measure, and elsewhere.
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Creative
Recent poems have appeared in Nimrod, Literary Matters, and New Verse Review. A new essay, “Ordinary Time,” will be in Image (Summer 2026). “Andy Warhol as Puzzle” is below.
“It contains multitudes…”
"Linguistic playfulness, T.S. Eliot mixing it up with Snooki, is typical of Devine's method. (In one section, he puts John Donne in conversation with Kendrick Lamar.)" —Anthony Domestico, Commonweal
Recent Work
“Call it our post-Covid icon. Representing, who knows?, something we learned before: how to connect, how to endure. If love is the felt experience of unity, you can do much worse than slowly–very slowly–working on a Warhol puzzle with your daughter”.