Elise Paschen
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Elise Paschen, Osage poet
Elise Paschen, Osage, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 to 2001, is the cofounder of "Poetry in Motion," a nationwide program that places poetry posters in subways and buses, reaching more than 10 million people a day with poetry. She is the daughter of Maria Tallchief, Osage prima ballerina. While an undergraduate at Harvard, she received the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal and the Joan Grey Untermyer Poetry Prize. After graduation from Harvard, she attended Oxford University where she received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in English Literature. She is the co-founder of Oxford Poetry and has been a guest editor of Poetry Magazine's special issue on contemporary British poets. She is the author of Infidelities (Story Line, 1996), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts (Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1985). She is coeditor of Poetry in Motion (Norton, 1996) and Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks, 2001). A former Frances Allen Fellow of the Newberry Library, Dr. Paschen currently teaches in the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Awards
Elise received the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press for her book Infidelities. She has received the Richard Selig Poetry Prize while at Oxford University, the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal and the Joan Grey Untermyer Poetry Prize while an undergraduate at Harvard.
Writing available online
Webcast of Elise reading at the Library of Congress (audio)
Elise reading on Chicago Public Radio (audio)
Elise reads her poem, “Monarch.” on Chicago Public Radio (audio)
Elise reading at the 2006 National Book Festival
Engagement in Ploughshares
Birth Day on American Poems
Books by Elise Paschen
Poetry Speaks to Children, Elise Paschen (Editor), Sourcebooks MediaFusion. [CD included]
Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast: 120 Poems from the Subways and Buses, Co-Editor with Brett Fletcher Lauer, W.W. Norton & Co.
Poetry Speaks:Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Co-Editor with Rebekah Presson Mosby, Sourcebooks.
Infidelities, Story Line Press.
Poetry in Motion: 100 Poems from the Subways and Buses, edited with Molly Peacock and Neil Neches, W W Norton & Co.
- Announcement from Poets and Writers' News on the publication of this book
- Publisher's page
Houses: Coasts, Oxford: Sycamore Press.
Anthologies
The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young (Editors), Ivan R Dee.
Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry, Kevin Stein & G. E. Murray (Editors), Univ. Illinois Press.
Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English, Shahid Ali Agha (Editor), Wesleyan University Press.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America, Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird (editors), W.W. Norton.
Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems, the First Hundred Years, Jason Shinder & Ruth Greenstein (Editors), Harvest Books.
Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs, Amy Hempel & Jim Shepard (Editors), Crown Pub.
A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women, Annie Finch (Editor), Story Line Press.
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival, (Sun Tracks Books, No 29) University of Arizona Press.
Dissertation
Yeats's Revisions of His Female Personae Poems, Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University
Interviews
Excerpts from an interview with Gloria Brame to appear in the Winter 1998 issue of Eclectic Literary Forum Magazine
NPR interview on Poetry Speaks to Children
Interview on Poetry Speaks to Children
See Also
Elise at Book Fest '06 at the Library of Congress
A profile of Elise on UniVerse
Elise reading John Keats's "To Autumn" from Poets on Poets
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