B. H. Fairchild
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B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an award-winning American poet and former college professor.
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[edit] Life
He grew up in small towns in the oil fields of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, later working through high school and college for his father, a lathe machinist.[1]
He taught English and Creative Writing at California State University, San Bernardino [2] and Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Claremont, California with his wife and daughter.
His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The Sewanee Review and other journals.
Fairchild has written that a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts was vital to his career as a poet: "It's very simple: without an NEA Fellowship in 1989-90, I would not have been able to complete my second book, Local Knowledge, nor have had the necessary time to compose the core poems for The Art of the Lathe, my third book, which, I am proud to say, received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, thus bringing my work to a wider audience than the immediate members of my family and also, therefore, making future work possible."[3]
[edit] Books
[edit] Poetry
- The System of Which the Body Is One Part
- Flight
- Local Knowledge
- The Arrival of the Future (Alice James Books)
- The Art of the Lathe (Alice James Books, 1998), Awards: 1999 William Carlos Williams Award, 1999 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 1999 California Book Award, 1999 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, 1999 PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, 1998 National Book Award finalist, 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award, 1996 Capricorn Poetry Award[4]
- Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W. W. Norton), National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry (2002)
- Usher (W. W. Norton, 2009)
[edit] Other
- Such Holy Song, a study of William Blake
[edit] Awards
- Guggenheim fellowship
- Rockefeller fellowship
- Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, 2002, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, 2005
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 2004
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- William Carlos Williams Award, 1999
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 1999
- California Book Award, 1999
- Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, 1999
- PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, 1999
- Finalist, National Book Award, 1998
- Beatrice Hawley Award, 1997
- Capricorn Poetry Award, 1996
- Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers Conference
- National Writers’ Union First Prize
- AWP Anniversary Award
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1] Mariani, Paul "A Conversation with B.H. Fairchild", from ' 'Image' ' magazine, Fall 2005, reproduced by Poetry Daily Web site, accessed October 29, 2006
- ^ http://english.csusb.edu/faculty/emeritus_faculty.html
- ^ [2] National Endowment for the Arts Web site, Web page titled "Features: Writer's Corner: B.H. Fairchild", accessed October 29, 2006
- ^ [3]Waywiser Press Web site, Web page titled "B.H. Fairchild, ' 'The Art of the Lathe' ' ", accessed October 29, 2006
[edit] External links
- Audio: B. H. Fairchild reads "The Gray man" from the book Usher (via poemsoutloud.net)
- B. H. Fairchild on Usher, Beauty, and Craft Poems Out Loud, 4.07.09
- "The Plains Pastoral of B.H. Fairchild" by Christopher Bakken (Article on Fairchild's poems in Contemporary Poetry Review)
