Adrian Blevins
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Adrian Blevins is an American poet
. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press
, 2009).
, a MA in Fiction from Hollins University
, and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College
in 2002.
She taught at Roanoke College
, Hollins University
, and teaches at Colby College
and lives in Waterville, Maine.
Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares. She has published personal essays in The Utne Reader, Salon, and the now-defunct Internet magazine, Conversely.
Full-length Poetry Collections
Chapbooks
Essays
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press
Wesleyan University Press
Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The Press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist...
, 2009).
Life
She graduated with a BA from Virginia Intermont CollegeVirginia Intermont College
Virginia Intermont College is a small private liberal arts college in Bristol, Virginia. It was founded in 1884 by a Baptist minister to create additional education opportunities for women. The school has been coeducational since 1972....
, a MA in Fiction from Hollins University
Hollins University
Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...
, and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...
in 2002.
She taught at Roanoke College
Roanoke College
Roanoke College is an private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college is located in Salem, Virginia, a suburban independent city adjacent to Roanoke, Virginia...
, Hollins University
Hollins University
Hollins University is a four-year institution of higher education, a private university located on a campus on the border of Roanoke County, Virginia and Botetourt County, Virginia...
, and teaches at Colby College
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1813, it is the 12th-oldest independent liberal arts college in the United States...
and lives in Waterville, Maine.
Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares. She has published personal essays in The Utne Reader, Salon, and the now-defunct Internet magazine, Conversely.
Awards
- 2007 Walter E. Daken Fellowship, Sewanee Writers Conference
- 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for The Brass Girl Brouhaha
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award
- 2000 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction from The Chattahoochee Review
- 1996 Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award for The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, which was reprinted in 1997
Published works
- "How to Cook a Wolf", Poetry, October 2008
- "Novelette", Poetry, October 2005
- "For My Students"; "Life History", The Drunken Boat
Full-length Poetry Collections
- Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009)
Chapbooks
Essays
Reviews
Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, “when everything was always so awash” that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins’s work.
External links
- Interview: How a Poem Happens > January 21, 2009 > Adrian Blevins
- Poems: The Drunken Boat > Adrian Blevins: For My Students, Life History
- Audio: From the Fishouse > Adrian Blevins Reading Why the Marriage Failed
- Poem: The Poetry Foundation > from Poetry, October 2005 > Novelette by Adrian Blevins
- http://www.aprweb.org/poem/dear-new-mothers-america