Paisley Rekdal

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Paisley Rekdal
OccupationProfessor, University of Utah, Goddard College
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Washington (BA)
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (MA)
University of Michigan (MFA)
GenrePoetry
Website
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Paisley Rekdal is an American

National Public Radio,[2] among others. She was also a recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.[3]

Early life and education

She grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto for Medieval Studies and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan.[4]

Career

Rekdal is a professor at the

Creative Writing program in Port Townsend, Washington.[5][6] She is also credited with having created the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City.[7]

Her work appeared in

The Virginia Quarterly Review,[13] and Blackbird.[14]

She was appointed

Poet Laureate of Utah in May 2017.[1]

In 2018, Rekdal was awarded the Narrative Prize for a trilogy of poems, “Quiver,” “Telling the Wasps,” and “The Olive Tree at Vouves,” which combine "Keatsian lyricism with a mortal questioning of the nature of memory in the modern age."[15]

Works

Poetry

  • A Crash of Rhinos. University of Georgia Press. 2000.
    ISBN 978-0-8203-2273-5
    .
  • Six Girls Without Pants,
    ISBN 9780910055826
  • The Invention of the Kaleidoscope. University of Pittsburgh Press. 25 February 2007.
    ISBN 978-0-8229-9083-3
    .
  • Animal Eye. University of Pittsburgh Press. 26 February 2012.
    ISBN 978-0-8229-7838-1.[16][17]
  • Nightingale. Copper Canyon Press. 7 May 2019.
    ISBN 978-1-5565-9567-7
  • West: A Translation. Copper Canyon Press. 2 May 2023.
    ISBN 9781556596568

Prose

References

  1. ^ a b "U. professor named Utah poet laureate". Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b "NewsPoet: Paisley Rekdal Writes The Day In Verse". NPR.org. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. ^ "paisley rekdal home". paisleyrekdal. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  4. ^ "Paisley Rekdal". Poetry Foundation. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  5. ^ "PAISLEY REKDAL". utah.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  6. ^ "2007 Faculty". www.writersatwork.org.
  7. ^ "Mapping Salt Lake City | Stories, Memories & History - Home". www.mappingslc.org. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  8. ^ "Paisley Rekdal". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  9. ^ "When It Is Over It Will Be Over" (PDF). www.nereview.com. 2014. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  10. ^ "Read By Author". pshares.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  11. ^ "Bats". poets.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Paisley Rekdal, "Canzone"". webdelsol.com. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  13. ^ "Paisley Rekdal". vqronline.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  14. ^ "Paisley Rekdal, Blackbird". vcu.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  15. ^ "Paisley Rekdal Wins 2018 Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  16. Kenyon Review
    . Retrieved 19 February 2014. Animal Eye reminds us that we don't know the limits of empathy, that we can't presume we're the only beings who recognize the familiar in another's gaze. What we recognize as familiar continually changes as we change, and we change by looking. And what is looking but the taking in of reflected light?
  17. ^ Farmer, Jonathan (April 1, 2012). "Beauty and Violence". Slate. Retrieved 19 February 2014. In acknowledging the disappointing facts of our existence and singing her way into its amazement, she has created poetry that lives alongside the misery we sometimes witness—and sometimes cause.

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