Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
1 appearances
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Edition 25 (2017) Winner
Vievee Francis
ヴィーヴィー・フランシス
Vievee Furanshisu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1963-12-31 （San Angelo, Texas, USA）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- San Angelo, Texas (birth) → Detroit, Michigan (residence/work) → Swannanoa, North Carolina (residence/teaching) → Hanover, New Hampshire (Dartmouth College)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, associate professor of English and Creative Writing, editor (associate editor)
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- Dartmouth College (Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing), Associate editor of Callaloo, North Carolina State University (former faculty), Warren Wilson College (former teaching)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisk University | — | — | — | — | United States |
| University of Michigan | — | — | MFA | — | United States |
Fisk University
Country:
United States
Undergraduate study (details not specified)
University of Michigan
Degree:
MFA
Year of Graduation:
2009
Country:
United States
MFA in poetry, graduated 2009
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award | — | — | Rona Jaffe Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Poetry) | Forest Primeval | — | Hurston/Wright Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award (Kingsley Tufts) | Forest Primeval | — | Kingsley and Kate Tufts Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2021 | Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry | — | — | The Sewanee Review | 受賞 |
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
2009
Organization:
Rona Jaffe Foundation
Result:
受賞
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Poetry)
2016
Work:
Forest Primeval
Organization:
Hurston/Wright Foundation
Result:
受賞
Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award (Kingsley Tufts)
2017
Work:
Forest Primeval
Organization:
Kingsley and Kate Tufts Foundation
Result:
受賞
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
2021
Organization:
The Sewanee Review
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
1 appearances
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Edition 34 (2021) Winner
Works
Major Works
Forest Primeval
2016 poetry collectionA collection of poems that engages themes of nature, memory, identity, and race. Noted for its dark, dreamlike imagery and its reclaiming of modernist and feminist poetic legacies.
naturememoryidentityrace
Bibliography
- Forest Primeval
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- imagistic, symbolic and dreamlike stylepoetic practice that reclaims modernist and feminist legacies
- Recurring Motifs
- forest and naturefamily and homememory and dreamsrace and the body
Legacy
Recognized as an award-winning voice in contemporary American poetry. Her work merges Black poetic traditions with modernist experimentation, and through teaching and editorial work she has contributed to nurturing younger poets.
Quotes
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An intense work, dark … Dantean … dreamlike in its visions.... Francis is reclaiming modernist and feminist legacies of poetry.
Source: Don Share (judge, Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards) (2017)
Trivia
- Earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan (2009)
- Lived and worked for 15 years in Detroit fostering literary communities
- Married to poet Matthew Olzmann