Chase Twichell

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Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950) [1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. [3] [2]

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Life and work

Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her B.A. from Trinity College and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was married to novelist Russell Banks from 1989 until his death in 2023. [4] She has taught at Princeton University, Warren Wilson College, Goddard College, University of Alabama, and Hampshire College. [5] [6] [7]

Many of Twichell's poems are heavily influenced by her years as a Zen Buddhist student of John Daido Loori at Zen Mountain Monastery, and her poetry in the book The Snow Watcher shows it. [8] [7] She attended the Foote School in New Haven. In the Fall 2003 Tricycle magazine interview with Chase, she says, "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."

Awards and recognition

Twichell is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker , Field , Ploughshares , The Georgia Review , The Paris Review , Poetry , The Nation , and The Yale Review . [9]

Twichell was a judge for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize. [10]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
List of poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Roadkill2014Twichell, Chase (January 6, 2014). "Roadkill". The New Yorker. 89 (43): 33.
Featherweight2022Twichell, Chase (May 16, 2022). "Featherweight". The New Yorker. 98 (12): 64–65.
Anthologies edited
Translations

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  2. 1 2 "Copper Canyon Press" . Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  3. ↑ "LC Catalog - No Connections Available". catalog.loc.gov.
  4. ↑ Chace, Rebecca (January 8, 2023). "Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82" . The New York Times . Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  5. ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "Chase Twichell". Poets.org.
  6. ↑ "Ausable Press > About the Editor". Archived from the original on 18 July 2008.
  7. 1 2 "Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio". Archived from the original on 15 January 2010.
  8. ↑ "Chase Twichell". The Poetry Foundation.
  9. ↑ "Chase Twichell, Blackbird". blackbird-archive.vcu.edu.
  10. ↑ "Judges".
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