Taije Silverman

Taije Silverman
Education BA in English - Vassar College, MFA program in Poetry - University of Houston, MFA in Poetry - The University of Maryland
Occupation Poet, Translator, Professor

Taije Silverman is an American poet, translator, and professor. She currently teaches at the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Biography

Taije Silverman was born in San Francisco, California (1974). Her father was a real estate developer and architect and her mother an art teacher.[2] She has lived in different cities in the United States including Houston, Berkeley, Atlanta, New York, D.C., Ithaca, Princeton, and Charlottesville.[3][4] She is a 1996 graduate of Vassar College.[5]

Literary career

Silverman is a widely recognized contemporary poet.[6][7] She is the author of Houses Are Fields, a book of poetry, published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series.[8] The book is about responding to her mother's death.[4] US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway called Houses Are Fields "one of the most beautiful books I've read in years."[9] Silverman's individual poems have been published in journals including Poetry, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, The Antioch Review and AGNI. Houses Are Fields appeared in Italian translation in 2013 (Le Case Sono Campi, trans. Giorgia Pordenoni, Oedipus Edizioni). Silverman's poems are also featured in the premier anthology of contemporary American poetry, The Best American Poetry (2016), guest edited by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[10] Her poetry focuses on intimacy and loss, and is characterized by a style of strong narrative and deep but fragmented lyricism.[11]

As a translator, she is best known for her translations of Giovanni Pascoli, which have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Agni, Pleiades and Modern Poetry in Translation, and is considered one of the most innovative contemporary English translators of Italian poetry.[12][13] Silverman has also translated Pier Paolo Pasolini's dialect poetry and different works by Paolo Valesio.[14][15]

She has taught at the University of Bologna in Italy under a Fulbright fellowship, Ursinus College, and Emory University, where she also served as the creative writing fellow. Silverman has also served as a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland and University of Houston. Previously, she has worked as a poetry instructor in public schools through the Writers-in-the-Schools program.[16]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. 1 2 "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
  2. ↑ Stuart, Courteney. "Gabe Silverman, developer, architect, and arts patron, dies at 73". Cville. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ↑ ,. "Taije Silverman - Phonodia". Phonodia. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  4. 1 2 "Poet Taije Silverman at New Dominion". The Hook (newspaper). 30 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows". vassar.edu. Vassar College. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Timpane, John (14 April 2013). "Celebrate words with Poetry Month events". McClatchy - Tribune Business News.
  7. ↑ "Words Off the Page: An Evening with Distinguished Women Poets". nmajh.org. National Museum of American Jewish History. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Taije Silverman | Washington College". www.washcoll.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  9. ↑ https://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/taije-silverman-at-new-dominion-october-30/
  10. ↑ Lehman, David (2016). Best American Poetry 2016. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501127557.
  11. ↑ "Houses Are Fields: Poems". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  12. ↑ "Taije Silverman - Interview". Panhandler Magazine. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  13. ↑ "Contributors' Notes on JSTOR". JSTOR 23621384.
  14. ↑ "Taije Silverman". bu.edu/agni. AGNI (magazine). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Taije Silverman | Harvard Review Online". harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  16. 1 2 "US Fulbright Scholars to Italy Report" (PDF).
  17. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows - Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising - Vassar College". fellowships.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  18. ↑ "Taije Silverman | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  19. ↑ "The MacDowell Colony". www.macdowellcolony.org. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  20. ↑ "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Annual Report" (PDF).
  21. ↑ "Taije Silverman Named Winner of the 2016 Anne Halley Prize for Poetry". The Massachusetts Review. 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

Selected work

Poems
Translations
Interviews
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.