External links
- Elise Paschen author homepage
- Elise Paschen on NativeWiki.
- Elise Paschen on Twitter.
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elise-paschen
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Elise Paschen (born January 1959) is an American poet and member of the Osage Nation. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country.
The daughter of renowned prima ballerina Maria Tallchief [1] and Chicago contractor Henry D. Paschen, she was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended the Francis W. Parker School. Paschen is a member of the Osage Nation. [2] [1]
While an undergraduate at Harvard University, Paschen received the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for poetry, and served as Poetry Editor of the Harvard Advocate. At Oxford University, where she received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in 20th Century British and American Literature, she co-founded and co-edited Oxford Poetry.
Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001, she has edited numerous anthologies, including the New York Times bestsellers Poetry Speaks. Her books of poetry include, most recently, The Nightlife, as well as Bestiary, Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker,Poetry and The Best American Poetry 2018. Her latest poetry book, Tallchief, was a tribute to her mother and was released in October 2023. [3] Her poem "Wi’-gi-e" was credited as inspiration for the title of the non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), which contained her poem and was adapted into the 2023 film of the same name. [4]
Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [2] She lives in Chicago with her husband, Stuart Brainerd, and their two children.
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