Kimberly Burwick is an American poet. Her honors include the 2007 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (finalist) and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
She is author of five poetry collections, most recently, Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press),[1] and including Horses in the Cathedral (Anhinga Press, 2010),[2] and Has No Kinsmen (Red Hen Press, 2006). Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including Fence, Kalliope, Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, and The Literary Review.
Life
editBurwick was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated from Worcester Academy. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. from Antioch University.
Burwick teaches at Washington State University and in the U.C.L.A. Extension Writer's Program. She currently lives in Moscow, Idaho.[3][4][5][6][7]
Her work Horses in the Cathedral won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry.[8]
Published works
edit- Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019)
- Custody of the Eyes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017)
- Good Night Brother (Burnside Review, 2014)
- Horses in the Cathedral (Anhinga Press, 2011)
- Has No Kinsman (Red Hen Press, 2006)
References
edit- ^ University of Chicago Press Distributed Books Brightword by Kimberly Burwick
- ^ Anhinga Press > Forthcoming Titles
- ^ "Department Faculty". Washington State University. Archived from the original on 2012-10-25.
- ^ "UCLA Extension Writers' Program Instructors > Kimberly Burwick Biography". Archived from the original on 2010-07-02. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2007 > Two Poems from Kimberly Burwick's The Norway Tree, and Author Note". Archived from the original on 2008-08-27. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Red Hen Press > Author Bio > Kimberly Burwick". Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Tupelo Press > New and Readings > Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award Results: 2008–2009
- ^ article on Horses in the Cathedral
External links
edit- Poems: Conjunctions > Kimberly Burwick > Three Poems
- Poems: The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2007 > Two Poems from Kimberly Burwick’s The Norway Tree
- Red Hen Press > Author Page > Kimberly Burwick
- INTERVIEW: Living the Bright Words: A Conversation with Eco-poet Kimberly Burwick By Rebecca Gayle Howell: April 9, 2020
- REVIEW of Brightword | Rupture Magazine | By Keith Kopka