Alison Townsend
Alison Townsend (born Pennsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American poet.
Life
She grew up in New York. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Her work has appeared in Calyx,[1] Clackamas Literary Review,[2] Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review.
She is married and lives outside Madison, Wisconsin.[3][4]
Awards
- 2009 Pushcart Prize[5]
- 2008 Crab Orchard Award
- 2004 Diner poetry contest
Works
- "Jane Morris Poses For Rossetti’s Proserpine"; "Demeter Faces Facts", Mudlark Poster No. 79, 2009
- "Spin", Rattle, July 2008
Poetry
- Persephone in America. Southern Illinois University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-809328-96-3.
- The Blue Dress: Poems. White Pine. 2003. ISBN 978-1-893996-61-8.
- What The Body Knows. Parallel Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-893311-25-1.
- And Still The Music. Flume Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-886226-12-8.(Flume Press chapbook prize winner, 2007).
Anthologies
- Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.
- Pamela Gemin, ed. (2003). Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-850-0.
- Billy Collins; David Lehman, eds. (2006). The best American poetry, 2006. Scribner Poetry. ISBN 978-0-7432-5759-6.
Essays
- The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water. Burrow Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1-941681-83-1.
- "Faculty Essay: The World Outside My Window - balancing teaching and the creative life", ENVISION Magazine, Winter 2007
References
- ^ "Calyx". 2003.
- ^ "CLR - Issues - 2004". Archived from the original on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
- ^ "Alison Townsend: Response & Bio".
- ^ "Flume Press: CSU, Chico". Archived from the original on 2009-09-07. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
- ^ "Alison Townsend earns Pushcart Prize for poem 'The Favorite' - University Marketing and Media Relations - UW-Whitewater". www.uww.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-06.
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