Christian Hawkey
Encyclopedia
Christian Hawkey is an American poet
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He is author of three books of poetry: The Book of Funnels (Winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award), HourHour (published by Delirium Press in 2005), Citizen Of (released by Wave Books in 2007); and has been featured in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review, Best American Poetry, Conduit, and PEN America
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3386/prmID/1502. His work has recently been translated into German Slovene, French, and Portuguese; and he translates several contemporary German poets including Daniel Falb, Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, and Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger.
He taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he edited jubilat. He is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches in the English department, and the Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media Program.
, and was the recipient of the Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award in 2006. In 2008, he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. In the Summer of 2010, Hawkey holds the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig
's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig
, Germany.
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...
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Life and work
Christian Hawkey graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.He is author of three books of poetry: The Book of Funnels (Winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award), HourHour (published by Delirium Press in 2005), Citizen Of (released by Wave Books in 2007); and has been featured in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review, Best American Poetry, Conduit, and PEN America
PEN America
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is a semi-annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir. It is published by PEN American Center in New York City...
http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3386/prmID/1502. His work has recently been translated into German Slovene, French, and Portuguese; and he translates several contemporary German poets including Daniel Falb, Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, and Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger.
He taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he edited jubilat. He is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches in the English department, and the Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media Program.
Awards and recognition
He has received awards from the Poetry Fund and the Academy of American PoetsAcademy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
, and was the recipient of the Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award in 2006. In 2008, he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. In the Summer of 2010, Hawkey holds the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig
University of Leipzig
The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...
's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
, Germany.
Works
reviews
He has the perfect hipster sense of language, the way to turn the phrase and turn the image so that it continually unfolds along its opposite edge, bringing the idea back onto itself before moving forward again. He can flip his tonal register at any moment by sliding quickly along a new linguistic thread. His writing is not narrative or linear, but rather (dare I say it), rhizomatic—each phrase, clause and word offering a new branch of exploration.