You could explain what was occurring around writing your particular poem or discuss what another poet’s lines evoke in you. I want to begin with a line that struck me from each collection. Rachel Rose: First, let me say that reading these books was profoundly rewarding, despite the often-difficult subject matter. The three poets in this conversation have recently published new collections: American Paisley Rekdal wrote Nightingale dual American/Canadian Elee Kraljii Gardiner wrote Trauma Head and the UK’s Rachael Allen wrote Kingdomland.

Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others.įor more information about The Georgia Poetry Circuit at Georgia Southern University, please contact Professor Christina Olson.In this series, France-based poet Rachel Rose brings together poets in different parts of the world to discuss their writing, their inspirations and the context in which they work.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W.

A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos Six Girls Without Pants The Invention of the Kaleidoscope Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. The schedule of events is as follows, and all events are free to the public and take place via Zoom: The Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Department of Writing & Linguistics present poet Paisley Rekdal for two events. Home > News > Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Paisley Rekdal on November 11 Georgia Poetry Circuit presents Paisley Rekdal on November 11 Research at Georgia Southern University.Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health.College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Intimate by Paisley Rekdal