James Brasfield

James Brasfield (born January 19, 1952, in Savannah, Georgia) is an American poet and translator. ^[1]

Life

He graduated from Armstrong State College, and Columbia University, with an MFA.

His work has appeared in AGNI, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, Poetry Wales, The Seattle Review, and The Southern Review. ^[2]

He was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine from 1993 through 1994; ^[3] he later returned to Ukraine to teach at the Chernivtsi Yuri Fedkovych State University in 1999. He taught at Western Carolina University and was visiting assistant professor in the University of Memphis in 2008 through 2009. ^[4] Brasfield retired from the English Department at Pennsylvania State University as 2017 as professor emeritus. ^[5]

Brasfield lives in Belfast, Maine.

Awards

• 2001 NEA Fellowship in Poetry
• 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ^{[6] [7]}
• The American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize for Translation, 1999
• The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

Works

• "Celan", AGNI, 2002
• "Palladium" (2016), Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 10, 2016, by the Academy of American Poets.
  • This poem was set to song, titled "Palladium", with permission from Brasfield by composer Edward Jacobs in 2017.
• Inheritance and Other Poems. Armstrong College Press. (Chapbook)
• Ledger of Crossroads. Louisiana State University Press. December 2009. ISBN   978-0-8071-3520-4. ^[8]
• Infinite Altars. Louisiana State University Press. August 2016. ISBN   978-0807164242. ^[9]
• Cove. Louisiana State University Press. January 11, 2023. ISBN   978-0807176603.

Translations

• "Swan", Oleh Lysheha, AGNI, 2002 Archived September 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
• Oleh Lysheha (1999). The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha . Translator James Brasfield. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. ISBN   978-0-916458-90-4.

Anthologies

• Diane Boller; Don Selby; Chryss Yost, eds. (2003). Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website. Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN   978-1-4022-0151-6.
• Feathers from the Angel’s Wing: Poems Inspired by the Paintings of Piero della Francesca (Persea Books, 2016), edited by Dana Prescott

References

1. McIntire, Dennis; Centre, International Biographical (January 1, 2001). International Who's who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia . International Biographical Centre. ISBN   9780948875595.
2. Poetry Wales. C. Davies. January 1, 2000.
3. http://weberjournal.weber.edu/archive/archive%20B%20Vol.%2011-16.1/Vol.%2012.2/12.2Brasfield.htm Archived July 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Weber: Contemporary West: Spring/Summer 1995, Volume 12.2 - James Brasfield
4. "The University of Memphis :: Poet James Brasfield Will Read at Galloway Mansion March 31 :: University of Memphis". Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
5. "James Brasfield | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. May 28, 1981. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
6. "2000 PEN Literary Award Winners". www.infoplease.com. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
7. "PEN American Center - PEN Member Profile". Archived from the original on January 17, 2010. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
8. Ledger of Crossroads, LSU Press, December 2009, retrieved February 6, 2015
9. Infinite Altars, LSU Press, August 2016, retrieved October 24, 2017