Adrian Blevins
Adrian Blevins (born 1964 Abingdon, Virginia )[1][2] is an American poet. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).[3]
Life
She graduated with a BA from Virginia Intermont College, a MA in Fiction from Hollins University, and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2002.
She taught at Roanoke College, Hollins University, and teaches at Colby College and lives in Waterville, Maine.[4][5]
Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares. She has published personal essays in The Utne Reader, Salon,[6] and the now-defunct Internet magazine, Conversely.[7]
Awards
- 2007 Walter E. Daken Fellowship, Sewanee Writers Conference
- 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for The Brass Girl Brouhaha
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award[8]
- 2000 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction from The Chattahoochee Review
- 1996 Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award for The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, which was reprinted in 1997
Published works
- "How to Cook a Wolf", Poetry, October 2008
- "Novelette", Poetry, October 2005
- "For My Students"; "Life History", The Drunken Boat
Full-length Poetry Collections
- Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009)
- The Brass Girl Brouhaha. Ausable Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-931337-10-6.
Chapbooks
- The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes. Bright Hill Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9646844-2-3.
Essays
Reviews
Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, “when everything was always so awash” that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins’s work.[9]
References
- ^ Ausable Press > Author Page > Adrian Blevins Archived February 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ausable Press > Author Page > Adrian Blevins Archived February 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Library of Congress Online Catalog > Adrian Blevins
- ^ http://www.colby.edu/profile/ablevins/
- ^ Ausable Press > Author Page > Adrian Blevins Archived February 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2001/07/04/erections/print.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.conversely.com/Write/wr041.shtml
- ^ Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Awards > Past Recipients
- ^ "review". UPNE.
External links
- Interview: How a Poem Happens > January 21, 2009 > Adrian Blevins
- Poems: The Drunken Boat > Adrian Blevins: For My Students, Life History
- Audio: From the Fishouse > Adrian Blevins Reading Why the Marriage Failed
- Poem: The Poetry Foundation > from Poetry, October 2005 > Novelette by Adrian Blevins
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091212215650/http://www.aprweb.org:80/poem/dear-new-mothers-america
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- Living people
- Poets from Virginia
- Virginia Intermont College alumni
- Hollins University alumni
- Warren Wilson College alumni
- Colby College faculty
- Roanoke College faculty
- Writers from Virginia
- Writers from Maine
- 1964 births
- People from Abingdon, Virginia
- People from Waterville, Maine
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners