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Jaswinder Bolina

Jaswinder Bolina (born 1978) is an American poet and essayist.

Early life and education

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Jaswinder Bolina was born in 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States to Indian parents.[1] He received an undergraduate B.A. in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago,[when?] and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing by the University of Michigan,[when?] and a Ph.D. in English (concentrating on creative writing) from Ohio University.[when?][2][third-party source needed]

Career

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As of November 2024, Bolina is an associate professor on the creative writing faculty in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Miami,[when?][3][third-party source needed] where he has taught in the MFA program.[4]

Writing corpus

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As of the 2020's, Bolina was known as a poet and an essayist.[5][6][better source needed]

His full-length poetry collections include; [7]

  • Carrier Wave (2007)
  • Phantom Camera (2013), which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Poetry & Prose;[8]
  • The 44th of July (2019).[9][10]
  • English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023)[11]

He is also the author of the chapbook The Tallest Building in America (2014),[12] and of a book of essays, Of Color (2020).[13][14][11] He has also contributed essays to several anthologies.[4] As of 2019, his poems were being published on the Poetry Society of America's website.[15]

Bolina is featured in Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Poets on Teaching, in a chapter entitled, "What I Tell Them," which begins

I'd like to tell them there are too many poets. I'd like to tell them we don't need any more and don't need any more competition. Too many throbbing bodies, not enough room in the bed. I'd like to tell them, you should go to other departments. You should go to the other department and become exquisite bankers future in-laws will favor. You matter too little, and anyway there isn't any place for poetry. You know too little, what are you doing here? / I don't say these things, though I think sometimes I should. ...[16]

Personal life

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Bolina is married with one child.[17]

Further reading

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  • Bolina, Jaswinder (June 14, 2023). "What a Dad Wearing a Brash Hat Taught Me About Fear and Fatherhood". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  • Halliday, Mark (Fall 2022). "Managing Our Fears: On Four Poems by Jaswinder Bolina". The Hopkins Review. 15 (4). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press: 199–207. doi:10.1353/thr.2022.0095. S2CID 255523014. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
  • Bolina, Jaswinder (2010). "What I Tell Them". In Wilkinson, Joshua Marie (ed.). Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook. University of Iowa Press. pp. 267–269. ISBN 9781587299049.

References

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  1. ^ Norton Books website, Jaswinder Bolina
  2. ^ Bolina, Jaswinder & Poetry Foundation Staff. "Jaswinder Bolina". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved May 22, 2020. [Quote] Born in Chicago, poet Jaswinder Bolina earned a BA in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English with a creative writing concentration from Ohio University. He is the author of the chapbook The Tallest Building in America (2014), and the poetry collections The 44th of July (2019), Carrier Wave (2007), winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Phantom Camera (2013), which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Press and was published in an international edition by Hachette India. / Compared to poets as diverse as John Ashbery, James Tate, and Dean Young, Bolina investigates language, experience, and innovative writing. Poet Ravi Shankar, writing on The Best American Poetry blog, noted that Bolina "breaks new perceptual and sonic ground," adding "he encapsulates the American South Asian immigrant experience, at least as I've experienced it." / Bolina was the 2010–2011 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College in Chicago. He is the author of the collection of essays Of Color (2020). His critical and creative writing has been included in The Task of Un/Masking (2014), Language: A Reader for Writers (2013), Best American Poetry (2011), and Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook (2010). Bolina currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.[third-party source needed]
  3. ^ Bolina, Jaswinder (June 17, 2023). "Jaswinder Bolina". People. English.AS.Miami.edu. Retrieved June 17, 2023. [Quote] Jaswinder Bolina is author of Phantom Camera (Green Rose Prize, New Issues Press and Hachette 2013) and Carrier Wave (Colorado Prize, Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University 2007). His poems have appeared widely in national and international literary journals and in the Best American Poetry series. His essays have appeared at the Poetry Foundation dot org and The Huffington Post; in magazines including The State and The Writer; and in the anthologies Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press 2011), Language: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2013), The Task of Un/Masking (University of Georgia Press 2014), and The Force of What's Possible (Nightboat Books 2014).[third-party source needed] For the departmental affiliation, see also this webpage.
  4. ^ a b Antioch University website, Faculty Directory, retrieved 11 November 2024
  5. ^ The New Inquiry website, Five Questions with Jaswinder Bolina, article dated April 27, 2012
  6. ^ Melwani, Lavina (November 1, 2019). "Indian-Americans in Wonderland: A Book Universe Highlights Desi Immigrant Tales in New York". CNBCTV18.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  7. ^ GoodReads website, Jaswinder Bolina, retrieved 11 November 2024
  8. ^ JStor website, Reviewed Work: Phantom Camera Jaswinder Bolina, article by Anya Groner, published in The Georgia Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 541
  9. ^ GoodReads website, The 44th of July
  10. ^ Teicher, Craig. ""I Reject Walls": A 2019 Poetry Preview". NPR. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  11. ^ a b Bolina, Jaswinder (June 14, 2023). "What a Dad Wearing a Brash Hat Taught Me About Fear and Fatherhood". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 17, 2023. The biographical material presented about his upcoming book, drawn from this source, was material provided by The Washington Post in a biographical header to the autobiographical article, and fact-checking of that header is presumed.
  12. ^ Writer's Digest website, Jaswinder Bolina: Poet Interview, article dated March 14, 2017
  13. ^ The Hippocampus Magazine website, Review: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina, article by Ronnie K. Stephens dated December 2, 2020
  14. ^ Stewardship Report Staff (October 16, 2019). "Wonderland@IAAC Literary Festival This Weekend Oct 19-20 in NYC". StewardshipReport.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2019. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  15. ^ Bolina, Jaswinder (August 4, 2019). "In Their Own Words: "Pornograph, with Americana"". PoetrySociety.org. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  16. ^ Bolina, Jaswinder (2010). "What I Tell Them". In Wilkinson, Joshua Marie (ed.). Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook. University of Iowa Press. pp. 267–269. ISBN 9781587299049.
  17. ^ Adroit Journal website, Conversation with Jaswinder Bolina, issue 48, published in January 2024
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