Rebecca Seiferle

Rebecca Seiferle
Education	BA, University of the State of New York (English & History, Art History minor); MFA, Warren Wilson College
Occupations	Poet, translator, educator
Notable work	The Ripped-Out Seam, The Music We Dance To, Bitters, Wild Tongue
Awards	Bogin Award (Poetry Society of America), Writers' Exchange Award, National Writers Union Prize, Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Western States Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship

Rebecca Seiferle is an American poet.

Life

Seiferle has a BA from the University of the State of New York with a major in English and History, and a minor in Art History. ^[1] In 1989, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. ^[1]

She taught English and creative writing for a number of years at San Juan College and has taught at the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Key West Literary Seminar, ^[2] Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program She has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.

She has regularly reviewed for The Harvard Review and Calyx, and her work has appeared in Partisan Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, ^[3] Carolina Quarterly. ^[4] She is editor of The Drunken Boat. ^[5]

She lives with her family in Tucson, Arizona.

Awards

Her first book, The Ripped-Out Seam won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the National Writers Union Prize, and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Her second collection, The Music We Dance To (Sheep Meadow 1999) won the 1998 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her third poetry collection, Bitters, published by Copper Canyon Press, won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her translation of Vallejo's Trilce was a finalist for the 1992 PenWest Translation Award.

In 2004, she was awarded a literary fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. ^[6] Rebecca Seiferle, in 2012, was declared the poet laureate of Tucson Arizona.

Works

• THE CUSTOM; HOW TO SPEAK IN BABYLON; DOCUMENTARIES; THE RIPPED-OUT SEAM, wisewomensweb
• "Law of Inertia", pif Magazine
• "The Relic". Ploughshares. Fall 1991. Archived from the original on September 6, 2007.
• "A Broken Crown of Sonnets for My Father's Forehead". The Sonnet Scroll I. The Poetry Porch. 1999.
• "Angel Fire; Widow's Mite; The Price of Books; Seraphim; Proviso". Arbutus. April 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-04.
• "Room of Dust", Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Issue #11, September, 1999
• The Gift, Copper Canyon Press (2001)
• "Wild Tongue", Narrative Magazine, 2008.

Poetry

• The Ripped-Out Seam. The Sheep Meadow Press. 1993. ISBN   978-1-878818-22-5.
• The Music We Dance To. The Sheep Meadow. 1999. ISBN   978-1-878818-76-8.
• Bitters. Copper Canyon Press. 2001. ISBN   978-1-55659-168-6.
• Wild Tongue. Copper Canyon Press. 2007. ISBN   978-1-55659-262-1.

Translations

• César Vallejo (2003). The Black Heralds. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN   978-1-55659-199-0.
• Trilce, César Vallejo, Sheep Meadow Press 1992

Anthologies

• Best American Poetry 2000, Scribner's, ISBN   978-0-684-84281-3 ^[7]
• Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman (2001). The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. Columbia University Press. p. 341. ISBN   978-0-231-11963-4 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.
• Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press 2002), translations of Alfonso D'Aquino and Ernesto Lumbreras
• Saludos: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico, Pennywhistle Press ^[8]
• New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, edited by Miriam Sagan and Sharon Neiderman, Red Crane Press, ISBN   978-1-878610-41-6 ^[9]
• The Sheep Meadow Anthology.
• Pushcart Prize XXVII, Pushcart Press, 2003, ISBN   978-1-888889-35-2 ^[10]

References

1. Cline, Lynn. "Poetry wanders a landscape's mysteries: Rebecca Seiferle covers mind field and faults", Pasatiempo, weekly magazine of The Santa Fe New Mexican , Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11 - 17 February 2000, page 52. (subscription required)
2. Archived December 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
3. Alger, Derek (13 March 2009). "Pam Uschuk". PIF Magazine. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
4. Carolina Quarterly. s.n. 1975. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
5. "Spring/Summer 2012". Thedrunkenboat.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
6. "Lannan Foundation". Lannan.org. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
7. Rita Dove; David Lehman (2000). The Best American Poetry . Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN   9780684842813 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.
8. Jeanie C. Williams; Victor Di Suvero (February 1, 1995). Saludos Poemas De Nuevo Mexico: Poems of New Mexico. Pennywhistle Press. ISBN   978-0-938631-33-0 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.
9. Sharon Niederman; Miriam Sagan (October 1, 1994). New Mexico poetry renaissance. Red Crane Books. ISBN   978-1-878610-41-6 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.
10. Bill Henderson (January 1, 2003). Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN   978-1-888889-35-2 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.

External links

• "Interview to Rebecca Seiferle", Anny Ballardini, fieralingue
• "Interview with Rebecca Seiferle", Cervena Barva Press