Talvikki Ansel
Encyclopedia
Talvikki Ansel is an American poet.
She graduated from Mount Holyoke College
in 1985, and Indiana University
. 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 teaches at the University of Rhode Island
.
She graduated from Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
in 1985, and Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
. 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 teaches at the University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
.
Awards
- Lannan Foundation resident, Marfa, Spring 2006.
- Stegner FellowshipStegner FellowshipThe Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner , an historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten...
in Creative Writing, from Stanford University - Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.
Works
- World, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2001
- Bird Calls, Blackbird, Spring 2002
- Swallows, Blackbird, Spring 2002
- Seed Savers, Poetry Magazine, January/February 2007
- Mycorrhizae, Poetry, Volume CLXXXVI, Number 3 June 2005
- Tree List, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003
- Or Stay Again, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003
- Blue Collection, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003
Books
- My Shining Archipelago, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300070314, chosen as a winner by James Dickey for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.
- Jetty (Zoo Press, 2003),
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.