Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
1 appearances
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Edition 19 (2011) Winner
Chase Twichell
チェイス・トウィチェル
Cheisu Towicheru
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1950-08-20 （New Haven, Connecticut, USA）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Zen Buddhism
- Residence History
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA → New York State (associated with Zen Mountain Monastery)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, professor, publisher, translator
- Active Years
- 1975-
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (teaching/visiting), Warren Wilson College (writing program), Goddard College, University of Alabama, Hampshire College
- Influenced By
- John Daido Loori, Rabindranath Tagore
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity College (Connecticut) | — | Undergraduate studies | B.A. | 1968–1972 | United States |
| Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa) | — | Creative Writing (MFA) | M.F.A. | 1974–1976 | United States |
Trinity College (Connecticut)
Undergraduate studies
Degree:
B.A.
Period:
1968–1972
Year of Graduation:
1972
Country:
United States
Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa)
Creative Writing (MFA)
Degree:
M.F.A.
Period:
1974–1976
Year of Graduation:
1976
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award | Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been | — | Claremont Graduate University | 受賞 |
| — | New Jersey State Council on the Arts award | — | — | New Jersey State Council on the Arts | 受賞 |
| — | Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| — | The Artists Foundation award | — | — | The Artists Foundation | 受賞 |
| — | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | フェローシップ |
| — | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | フェローシップ |
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
2011
Work:
Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
Organization:
Claremont Graduate University
Result:
受賞
New Jersey State Council on the Arts award
Organization:
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Result:
受賞
Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
The Artists Foundation award
Organization:
The Artists Foundation
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
フェローシップ
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
フェローシップ
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Northern Spy
1981 Poetry collectionEarly collection featuring personal observation and introspective poems.
self-explorationobservations of daily life
The Odds
1986 Poetry collectionA collection exploring the balance between form and feeling.
relationshipsuncertainty
Perdido
1991 Poetry collectionPoetic pieces dealing with loss and recovery.
lossrecovery
The Ghost of Eden
1995 Poetry collectionA mid-career collection dealing with allegorical images and memory.
memoryallegory
The Snow Watcher
1998 Poetry collectionPoems strongly influenced by Zen sensibility, focusing on stillness and awareness.
Zenstillnessawareness
Dog Language
2005 Poetry collectionA collection that vividly depicts everyday life and relationships.
everyday liferelationships
Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
2010 Poetry collectionA mature collection questioning the relationship between self and world; winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
existencequestioningnature
Things as It Is
2018 Poetry collectionRecent work containing poems marked by observation and clarity.
observationclarity
Bibliography
- Northern Spy (1981)
- The Odds (1986)
- Perdido (1991)
- The Ghost of Eden (1995)
- The Snow Watcher (1998)
- Dog Language (2005)
- Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (2010)
- Things as It Is (2018)
- The Lover of God — Rabindranath Tagore (translation with Tony K. Stewart, 2003)
- The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach (editor with Robin Behn, 1992)
Translations by Author
- The Lover of God (poems by Rabindranath Tagore, translated with Tony K. Stewart)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- concise, meditative styleimage-driven, compressed poetry
- Recurring Motifs
- Zen/Zazen-informed awarenessimages of nature and seasonssolitude and relationships
Legacy
Chase Twichell is known for meditative, Zen-influenced poetry and is regarded as an important voice in contemporary American poetry. She has also contributed to nurturing younger poets through teaching and publishing.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (associated award)
Archives
- Library of Congress (authority records)
Quotes
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“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.”
Source: Tricycle magazine interview (2003) (2003)
Trivia
- Founded Ausable Press in 1999.
- Married novelist Russell Banks in 1989; they remained married until his death in 2023.
- Served as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2011.