Jim Powell (poet)
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Jim Powell is an American
poet
, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area
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(1988–90), a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley
, a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), and the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago
(2005).
United States
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poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
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Career
Powell’s poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho (1993, rev. 2007) and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets, and published essays and reviews. Thom Gunn and Robert Duncan were teachers, mentors and friends; he was a member of Duncan’s Homer Group. He was poet-in-residence at Reed CollegeReed College
Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...
(1988–90), a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), and the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
(2005).
Publications
- Substrate (2009)
- The Poetry Of Sappho (2007)
- "To Sea Again, Dear Ship" (Common Knowledge 2007, 10 translations)
- Catullan Revenants (2001 chapbook)
- California Blue Indian Ghost Dance (2000 chapbook)
- A Victorian Connoisseur Of Sunsets (1999 chapbook)
- Sappho: A Garland (1993)
- It Was Fever That Made the World (1989)
- "Poetry Without Imposture" (Threepenny Review, 2008, on Thom Gunn)
- "Reading The Canon" (Kean Review 2007)
- "Poetry And Second Thoughts" (TriQuarterly 1993)
- "In The Waiting Room" (TriQuarterly 1991)
- "Basil Bunting and Mina Loy" (Chicago Review 1990)
- "William Everson (Brother Antoninus") (Beat Generation Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography)
- "Rope Of Twined Lifetimes: The Poetry Of John Peck" (Occident 1980)
- "The Light Of Vers Libre" (Paideuma 1979, on Pound's metric)