Jim Powell (poet)

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Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2]

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Powell’s poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho (1993, rev. 2007 and 2019) and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets, and published essays and reviews. Thom Gunn and Robert Duncan were teachers, mentors and friends; he was a member of Duncan’s Homer Group. He was poet-in-residence at Reed College (1988–90), a graduate student instructor at University of California, Berkeley (1981-1987), a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago (2005), and 2014 recipient of the Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award for Poetry. [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. Powell, Jim: It Was Fever That Made The World
  2. Project MUSE
  3. Reed College list of visiting writers
  4. "Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license," San Francisco Chronicle, April 23, 2009.
  5. Gioia, Dana (2004). California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present.