Talvikki Ansel

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Talvikki Ansel
NationalityAmerican
Education Mount Holyoke College
Indiana University Bloomington
GenrePoetry

Talvikki Ansel is an American poet. She was chosen as a winner by James Dickey, for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.

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Life

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University Bloomington. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah. She was a 2020 fellow at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT.

She teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

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Reviews

With admirable economy, the title Jetty announces two significant features of Talvikki Ansel's second book: the liminal vantage-point of the narrators of these poems and the curious ways in which the human world intersects with the natural. [3]

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