{"id":14640,"date":"2012-05-29T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:32:28","slug":"traci-brimhall-selected-as-summer-poet-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/traci-brimhall-selected-as-summer-poet-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Traci Brimhall Selected as Summer Poet-in-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2026 Reading set for 5 p.m. June 21 at Off Square Books<\/em><\/p>\n

OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Traci Brimhall, acclaimed for her use of myth and folklore in her poetry, has been chosen as the sixth annual Summer Poet-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Brimhall is the author of\u00a0\u201cOur Lady of the Ruins\u201d\u00a0(forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forch\u00e9 for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and\u00a0\u201cRookery\u201d\u00a0(Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. An early review for \u201cOur Lady of the Ruins\u201d in Publisher\u2019s Weekly describes the poems as \u201cpart Dylan Thomas, part saint\u2019s legend and part Tolkien.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I learned I had been selected, I was in a local poetry salon where poets get together and drink wine and talk about poems, so it was a lovely place to find out,\u201d said Brimhall, who teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University. \u201cI was totally ecstatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Summer Poet-in-Residence program is designed to provide ample writing time to the poet while also allowing UM summer course offerings to be enriched by the presence of an active poet on campus.<\/p>\n

She will give a public reading at 5 p.m. June 21 at Off Square Books.<\/p>\n

Beth Ann Fennelly,\u00a0associate professor of English and director of the MFA program, said Brimhall will be a wonderful poet in residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a finalist for the last two years, and every year she applied, she sent a new manuscript, instead of repeating the same poems,\u201d Fennelly said. \u201cShe kept coming very close, but this year\u2019s poems blew us away. Many of them are set in Brazil and make use of myth and folklore as well as her mother\u2019s experiences. What\u2019s unique about them is their authority \u2013 they create a world immediately, without a lot of scaffolding or explanation. They are economical in their\u00a0conception and wild in their delivery, rich and nuanced and moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brimhall, who is a doctoral candidate and a King\/ Ch\u00e1vez\/ Parks Fellow at Western Michigan University, will be in Oxford from June 15 to July 15.<\/p>\n

She said she wants to tell students in her class visits about the importance of revision.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost writing textbooks only devote a chapter to revision or leave it out entirely,\u201d Brimhall said. \u201cAn aspiring paleontologist told me that it is very difficult to tell a prehistoric fossil from the ground around it, and the most important thing a paleontologist could learn was how to tell the difference between rock and bone. It struck me that revision contains much of this same struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also hopes to bring curiosity and passion to the students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs valuable as I believe a classroom environment is, I have learned in my own educational life that my passion has been one of my greatest teachers,\u201d Brimhall said.<\/p>\n

Her poems have appeared in\u00a0New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review Online, FIELD, Indiana Review\u00a0and\u00a0Southern Review.<\/em>\u00a0Brimhall is a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and an Emerging Writer Fellow at The Writer’s Center. She has also received scholarships and fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Disquiet International Literary Program.<\/p>\n

She holds degrees from Florida State University and Sarah Lawrence College, and also serves as Poetry Editor for Third Coast and Editor at Large for Loaded Bicycle.<\/p>\n

Previous summer poets include Jay Leeming, Sandra Beasley, Jake Adam York, Tung-Hui Hu and Paula Bohince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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