Chase Twichell
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[3][2]
Life and work
Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her B.A. from Trinity College and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was married to novelist Russell Banks from 1989 until his death in 2023.[4] She has taught at Princeton University, Warren Wilson College, Goddard College, University of Alabama, and Hampshire College.[5][6][7]
Many of Twichell's poems are heavily influenced by her years as a Zen Buddhist student of John Daido Loori at Zen Mountain Monastery, and her poetry in the book The Snow Watcher shows it.[8][7] She attended the Foote School in New Haven. In the Fall 2003 Tricycle magazine interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind. I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways. Zen is a wonderful sieve through which to pour a poem. It strains out whatever's inessential."
Awards and recognition
Twichell is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The Yale Review.[9]
Twichell was a judge for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.[10]
Bibliography
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Poetry
- Collections
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Twichell, Chase (1981). Northern spy : poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.— (1986). The odds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Perdido (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991)
- The Ghost of Eden (Ontario Review Press, 1995)
- The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998)
- Dog Language (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
- Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
- Things as It Is (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Roadkill | 2014 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Twichell, Chase (January 6, 2014). "Roadkill". The New Yorker. 89 (43): 33. | |
| Featherweight | 2022 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Twichell, Chase (May 16, 2022). "Featherweight". The New Yorker. 98 (12): 64–65. |
- Anthologies edited
- The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach (edited with Robin Behn: HarperPerennial, 1992)
- Translations
- The Lover of God, Poems by Rabindranath Tagore (Copper Canyon Press, 2003) (translated with Tony K. Stewart)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Library of Congress Authorities". LCNAF Cataloging in Publication data - LC Control Number: n 81017543. LOC. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Copper Canyon Press". Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LC Catalog - No Connections Available". catalog.loc.gov.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chace, Rebecca (January 8, 2023). "Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poets, Academy of American. "Chase Twichell". Poets.org.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ausable Press > About the Editor". Archived from the original on July 18, 2008.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio". Archived from the original on January 15, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chase Twichell". The Poetry Foundation.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chase Twichell, Blackbird". blackbird-archive.vcu.edu.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Judges".
External links
- Author Biography: PoetryNet > August 1998 > Chase Twichell
- Poem: The Poetry Foundation > Self-Portrait by Chase Twichell
- Poems & Bio: Blackbird > Chase Twichell
- Perceiving human consciousness through award-winning poetry Hartford Trinity College Mosaic
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