Taije Silverman

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EducationBA in English - Vassar College, MFA program in Poetry - University of Houston, MFA in Poetry - The University of Maryland
Occupation(s)Poet, Translator, Professor

Taije Silverman is an American poet, translator, and professor. She currently teaches at the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]

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Biography

Taije Silverman was born in San Francisco, California (1974). Her father was a real estate developer and architect and her mother an art teacher. [2] She has lived in different cities in the United States including Houston, Berkeley, Atlanta, New York, D.C., Ithaca, Princeton, and Charlottesville. [3] [4] She is a 1996 graduate of Vassar College. [5]

Literary career

Silverman is a widely recognized contemporary poet. [6] [7] She is the author of Houses Are Fields, a book of poetry, published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series. [8] The book is about responding to her mother's death. [4] US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey called Houses Are Fields "one of the most beautiful books I've read in years." [9] Silverman's individual poems have been published in journals including Poetry, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, The Antioch Review and AGNI.Houses Are Fields appeared in Italian translation in 2013 (Le Case Sono Campi, trans. Giorgia Pordenoni, Oedipus Edizioni). Silverman's poems are also featured in the premier anthology of contemporary American poetry, The Best American Poetry (2016, 2017). [10] [11] Her poetry focuses on intimacy and loss, and is characterized by a style of strong narrative and deep but fragmented lyricism. [12]

Silverman is considered one of the most innovative contemporary English translators of Italian poetry. [13] [14] She is best known for her translations of Giovanni Pascoli, which have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Agni, Pleiades and Modern Poetry in Translation. This work culminated in the publication of Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Princeton University Press, which Jonathan Galassi calls "a lyrical and learned introduction to one of modern Italy's essential poets." [15] Silverman has also translated Pier Paolo Pasolini's dialect poetry and poems by Paolo Valesio. [16] [17]

She has taught at the University of Bologna in Italy under a Fulbright fellowship, Ursinus College, and Emory University, where she also served as the creative writing fellow. Silverman has also served as a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland and University of Houston. Previously, she worked as a poetry instructor in public schools through the Writers-in-the-Schools program. [18]

Awards and recognition

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  1. 1 2 "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
  2. ↑ Stuart, Courteney. "Gabe Silverman, developer, architect, and arts patron, dies at 73". Cville. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Taije Silverman - Phonodia". Phonodia. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  4. 1 2 "Poet Taije Silverman at New Dominion". The Hook. 30 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows". vassar.edu. Vassar College. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Timpane, John (14 April 2013). "Celebrate words with Poetry Month events". McClatchy - Tribune Business News.
  7. ↑ "Words Off the Page: An Evening with Distinguished Women Poets". nmajh.org. National Museum of American Jewish History . Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Taije Silverman | Washington College". www.washcoll.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  9. ↑ "Taije Silverman at New Dominion October 30". 2009-10-25.
  10. ↑ "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  11. ↑ Lehman, David (2016). Best American Poetry 2016. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   9781501127557.
  12. ↑ "Houses Are Fields: Poems". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  13. ↑ "Taije Silverman - Interview". Panhandler Magazine. 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  14. ↑ "Contributors' Notes". Agni (76): 242–250. 2012. JSTOR   23621384.
  15. ↑ Pascoli, Giovanni (2019-10-15). Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9780691198262 . Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  16. ↑ "Taije Silverman". bu.edu/agni. AGNI . Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  17. ↑ "Taije Silverman | Harvard Review Online". harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  18. 1 2 "US Fulbright Scholars to Italy Report" (PDF).
  19. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows - Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising - Vassar College". fellowships.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  20. ↑ "Taije Silverman | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  21. ↑ "The MacDowell Colony". www.macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  22. ↑ "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Annual Report" (PDF).
  23. ↑ "Taije Silverman Named Winner of the 2016 Anne Halley Prize for Poetry". The Massachusetts Review. 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

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