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<\/p>\nOXFORD, Miss. – Award-winning poet Tung-Hui Hu has been \n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \nThe acclaimed author is to be provided housing in the \n“This year we received more than a hundred applicants from \nThe Summer Poet in Residence Fellowship, inaugurated last \nWhile at UM, Hu is to give a public lecture\/reading, make \nHu’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ontario \nHe is the author of “The Book of Motion” (University of \n“He is a fascinating writer,” said Ann Fisher-Wirth, \nFisher-Wirth said Hu’s letter regarding his poetic projects \n“This fresh and unexpected poet extends the lyric into the \nHu listed some of his favorite poets as Mark McMorris and \nHu has worked as a political consultant and computer \nAward-winning poet Paula Bohince was the inaugural Summer
\nchosen from more than a hundred applicants worldwide as the
\nsecond Summer Poet in Residence at the University of
\nMississippi.
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\nLawrence House June 15-July 15.
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\nall over the country and even a few international ones,”
\nsaid Beth Ann Fennelly, associate professor of English and
\nSPiR program director. “We selected Tung-Hui for his
\namazing lyrical cadences and haunting and spare images. His
\nresume shows an active mind engaged in many different kinds
\nof inquiry.”
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\nyear, bridges the gap between the Grisham Visiting Writers
\nSeries of the spring and fall, said Patrick Quinn, chair of
\nthe Department of English. “For our students to now have
\nyear-round access to great literary leaders is an exciting
\ncultural opportunity.”
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\nweekly classroom visits and co-host a writers’ salon for
\ngraduate students. He also plans to continue working on his
\npoetry collection “Greenhouses, Lighthouses.”
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“During the residency, I hope to complete a series of
\npalinodes, poems that literally sing back or recant
\nsomething,” Hu said. “I’m trying to write about a moment
\nthat has gone missing, whether it’s activism in 1964 or the
\ndisappearance of bees from U.S. agriculture.”
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\nReview and Ploughshares, among other publications. Selected
\npoems to be included in his third poetry collection
\nrecently won the 2007 James D. Phelan Literary Award.
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\nGeorgia Press, 2003) and “Mine” (Ausable Press, 2007),
\nwhich won an Eisner Prize. A graduate of Princeton
\nUniversity and the University of Michigan, he is pursuing a
\ndoctorate in film studies at the University of
\nCalifornia-Berkeley. Hu has received fellowships from
\nMacDowell Colony, Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for
\nthe Creative Arts.
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\nprofessor of English. “I know he will offer a great deal to
\nour MFA students in poetry, and I am very pleased that he
\nwill be a part of our community.”
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\nand the poems he submitted with his application evinced “a
\ndeep and sophisticated intellectual curiosity.”
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\nsocial space without losing any of song’s intensity or
\nmystery,” wrote poet Mark Doty.
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\nC.D. Wright. “I’m interested in their voice, which turns
\neveryday speech into a poetry outside of time,” he said.
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\nscientist. He resides in San Francisco, where he writes on
\nfilm and new media.
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\nPoet in Residence in 2007. For more information about the
\nSummer Poet in Residence Program at the University of
\nMississippi, call Beth Ann Fennelly at 662-513-4327 or go
\nto their Web site.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"