Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal
Occupation	Professor, University of Utah, Goddard College
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Washington (BA) Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (MA) University of Michigan (MFA)
Genre	Poetry
Website
Official website

Paisley Rekdal is an American poet.

Early life and education

She grew up in Seattle and graduated from the universities of Washington, Toronto, and Michigan.^[1]

Career

She teaches at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and at Goddard College's low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in Port Townsend, Washington.^[2][3]

Her work appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nerve, New England Review,^[4] The New York Times Magazine, NPR,^[5] Ploughshares,^[6][7] Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West,^[8] The Virginia Quarterly Review,^[9] and Blackbird.^[10]

Works

• A Crash of Rhinos. University of Georgia Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8203-2273-5.
• Six Girls Without Pants, Eastern Washington University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780910055826
• The Invention of the Kaleidoscope. University of Pittsburgh Press. 25 February 2007. ISBN 978-0-8229-9083-3.
• Animal Eye. University of Pittsburgh Press. 26 February 2012. ISBN 978-0-8229-7838-1.^[11][12]

Non-fiction

• The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 18 December 2007. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-0-307-42908-7.
• Intimate: An American Family Photo Album, Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2012, ISBN 9781936797080

References

1. "Paisley Rekdal". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
2. "PAISLEY REKDAL". utah.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
3. http://www.writersatwork.org/2007faculty.html
4. http://www.nereview.com/files/2014/01/NER-Rekdal.pdf
5. "NewsPoet: Paisley Rekdal Writes The Day In Verse". NPR.org. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
6. "Read By Author". pshares.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
7. "Bats". poets.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
8. "Paisley Rekdal, "Canzone"". webdelsol.com. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
9. "Paisley Rekdal". vqronline.org. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
10. "Paisley Rekdal, Blackbird". vcu.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
11. Phillips, Emilia (Summer 2013). "Becoming Feral: a Review of Paisley Rekdal's Animal Eye". Kenyon Review. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Animal Eye reminds us that we don’t know the limits of empathy, that we can’t presume we’re the only beings who recognize the familiar in another’s gaze. What we recognize as familiar continually changes as we change, and we change by looking. And what is looking but the taking in of reflected light?
12. Farmer, Jonathan (April 1, 2012). "Beauty and Violence". Slate. Retrieved 19 February 2014. In acknowledging the disappointing facts of our existence and singing her way into its amazement, she has created poetry that lives alongside the misery we sometimes witness—and sometimes cause.

External links

• Official website
• University of Utah faculty profile of Paisley Rekdal
• http://www.loc.gov/poetry/interviews/rekdal.html
• http://www.coalhillreview.com/?p=19751