Background
Jennifer Boyden grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota.
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The Mouths of Grazing Things (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Jennifer Boyden (2010-04-01)
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The Mouths of Grazing Things (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
( The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical...)
The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature’s forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue. Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature lurks in and out of us still, Boyden translates for a new landscape where a brain in a jar is anchored by an apple, a fly-tying fisherman finds love songs to fish scattered among the barber’s sweepings, and the players at “the most dangerous playground in the world” prepare for anything with one fist clenched and the other full of sugar. In poems built to survive an unsafe journey, this book delivers the now-beyond, the almost-was, the near-forgotten, and the just-in-time.
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Jennifer Boyden
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Education
She attended Creighton University (Bachelor, Creative Writing), and Eastern Washington University (Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, With Distinction).
Career
Her poetry is primarily lyrical and imagistic, and her themes often relate to environmental issues. In 1999, she was awarded the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Northwest Wilderness Writing residency and lived in an isolated, remote wilderness region near the Rogue River in southern Oregon. Her work was influenced by this wilderness immersion.
A later environmental project was funded by a grant from Washington State Artist Trust Gap Grants.
Foreign this project, Boyden walked hundreds of miles and wrote essays that arose from the walks. Boyden also collaborates with visual artists.
She currently lives in Suzhou, China where she teaches at Soochow University. She has also taught at Walla Walla Community College and at Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington).
Eastern Washington University (Spokane, Washington), The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, Oregon).
Her main teaching areas are creative writing, poetry, environmental literature, and experimental and cross-genre forms.
Achievements
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The Brittinghm Prize in poetry, 2010, selected by Robert Pinsky (University of Wisconsin Press) Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency. Washington State Artist Trust Gap Grant. Distinguished Alumni Award: Eastern Washington University, Inland Northwest Center for Writers, 2010 Blue Mountain Arts Alliance grant awarded for Convergences, a public art sculpture installed in downtown Walla Walla, Washington, 2004.
Works
book
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The Mouths of Grazing Things (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
( The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical...)
- The Mouths of Grazing Things (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Jennifer Boyden (2010-04-01)
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The Mouths of Grazing Things (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
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Awards
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Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittinghm Prize in poetry, 2010, selected by Robert Pinsky (University of Wisconsin Press) PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency. Washington State Artist Trust Gap Grant. Distinguished Alumni Award: Eastern Washington University, Inland Northwest Center for Writers, 2010 Blue Mountain Arts Alliance grant awarded for Convergences, a public art sculpture installed in downtown Walla Walla, Washington, 2004.Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittinghm Prize in poetry, 2010, selected by Robert Pinsky (University of Wisconsin Press) PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency. Washington State Artist Trust Gap Grant. Distinguished Alumni Award: Eastern Washington University, Inland Northwest Center for Writers, 2010 Blue Mountain Arts Alliance grant awarded for Convergences, a public art sculpture installed in downtown Walla Walla, Washington, 2004.