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Distinguished Professor, English
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Distinguished Professor, English
Professional Service
- Auburn University .
Judge for Southern Humanities Review "Witness" Poetry Prize.
09/2020 - present
- Smith College.
Judge for undergraduate poetry prize.
09/2020 - present
- 92nd Street Y.
Judge for "Discovery" Poetry Award.
03/2020 - present
- Academy of American Poets .
Judge for Amazon Literary Partnership and the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fund
.
03/2020 - present
- Utah Division of Arts and Museums.
Poet Laureate Position. Judging for Poetry Out Loud, school workshops for Poetry Out Loud across the state. K-12 teacher training offered for poetry/CW pedagogy.
01/2019 - present
- Utah Arts Council, Poet Laureate Position.
Judging for Poetry Out Loud, school workshops for Poetry Out Loud.
01/2018 - 12/31/2018
- Utah Division of Arts and Museums.
Utah Poet Laureate.
06/2017 - present
Internal Service
- Anti-Racism Committee.
Chair,
04/2020 - present.
Department service.
- Graduate Committee.
member,
07/2014 - 07/2017.
Department service.
- Director of Creative Writing .
07/01/2014 - 07/2017.
Department service.
Outreach
- As Utah's poet laureate, I continue to teach poetry writing workshops, anti-racism writing workshops, K-12 creative writing pedagogy classes. I also organize and run the annual (and now hybrid) Utah Poetry Festival . 01/2020 - present. Hours Served: 60 01/2020 - present. Hours Served: --.
01/2021 - 05/2022
- As Utah's poet laureate, I teach poetry writing workshops, anti-racism writing workshops, K-12 creative writing pedagogy, continuation of online Utah Poetry Festival, virtual Beehive Poetry Month and National Poetry Month activities: all on Zoom. 01/2019 - present. Hours Served: 60.
01/2020 - present
- Teaching poetry writing workshops, K-12 creative writing pedagogy, judging Poetry Out Loud competitions at schools around the valley, creation of Utah Poetry Festival and Beehive Poetry Month activities.
01/2019 - present
- Teaching creative writing at Utah International Charter School, South Salt Lake.
12/12/2017 - 12/12/2017
- Poetry Out Loud Judge, Rose Park Elementary, 2 hours.
01/20/2016 - 01/20/2016
Honors & Awards
- Mayor's Artist Award .
Salt Lake City Arts Council,
06/2021
- Washington State Book Award for Nightingale.
Washington State Center for the Book,
10/2020
- "Four Marys" selected for reprint in Best American Poetry 2019.
12/2019
- Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship: $100,000 to help me complete Mapping Literary Utah, run the Utah Poetry festival, and the Beehive Poetry Month.
Academy of American Poets,
06/2019
- Narrative Magazine Prize: $4,000 for best poems published in the magazine during calendar year.
11/2018
- Poet Laureate, Utah .
05/2017
- Civitella Ranieri Residency/Fellowship.
Civitella Ranieri,
05/2017
- Best American Poetry selection, 2016 for publication in 2017.
Best American Poetry,
01/10/2017
- Imaginary Vessels chosen as a Lannan Literary Selection.
Lannan Foundation,
11/08/2016
- AWP Nonfiction Prize.
AWP,
06/2016
- Guggenheim Fellowship.
04/2014
- Pushcart Prize.
05/2013
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, Finalist.
02/2013
- UNT Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Award.
02/2013
- Best American Poetry selection, 2013 .
12/2012
- Best American Poetry selection, 2012.
12/2011
- Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship.
Amy Lowell Trust,
02/11/2011
- Pushcart Prize.
12/2010
- Writing Residency, Pushcart Prize Fellow.
Jentel Foundation,
11/2010
- Tanner Humanities Fellowship.
Tanner Humanities Center,
12/2009
- Literature Fellowship.
Utah Arts Council,
12/2007
- Literature Fellowship.
National Endowment for the Arts,
12/2003
- Literature Fellowship.
Wyoming Arts Council,
12/2002
In the Media
- Los Angeles Times review of Appropriate: A Provocation. 03/01/2021.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/s...
- New York Times's "New and Noteworthy Books": Coverage of Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/09/2021.
- Kirkus: "Small Books That Shine a Big Light": Review of Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/09/2021.
- TIME Magazine's "Fourteen New Books You Should Read in February": Coverage of Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/02/2021.
- Interview on KERA’s Think for Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/2021.
- Starred Library Journal review of Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/2021.
https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/appropriate-...
- Starred Booklist review of Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/2021.
https://www.booklistonline.com/Appropriate-A-Provo...
- Interview on Access Utah for Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/2021.
- Interview on Kirkus “Fully Booked” Podcast for Appropriate: A Provocation
. 02/2021.
- Interview on Montana Public Radio for Appropriate: A Provocation. 02/2021.
- Interview on Utah Public Radio, Access Utah for Mapping
Literary Utah
. 04/2020.
- "Nightingale" included in National Public Radio's "Best Books of 2019". 12/2019.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=...
- Review of Nightingale in The Sewanee Review, "In That Strange Way of Beauty: Two Poetry Reviews.". 06/2019.
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/strange-way-...
- Review of "Nightingale" in The Washington Post. 05/13/2019.
- Feature interview in AWP Chronicle, “What Do We Mean When We Say a War is Over?: An Interview with Paisley Rekdal," May/ Summer 2019 issue. 05/2019.
- Major profile and review of "Nightingale" in Poets and Writers, "Shadow Narratives," by Renee Shea. 05/2019.
- Review of "Nightingale" in The Adroit Journal . 05/2019.
https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/05/01/something-...
- Starred review for "Nightingale" in Library Journal. 05/2019.
https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=night...
- Review of "Nightingale" in Booklist. 04/12/2019.
https://www.booklistonline.com/Nightingale-Paisley...
- Review of "Nightingale" in Ploughshares. 04/12/2019.
http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/nightingale-by-p...
- Interview about "Nightingale" on "Radio West" . 04/02/2019.
https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/two-utah-poets
- Starred review for "Nightingale," Publisher's Weekly. 04/2019.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55659-567-7
- Review of "Nightingale" in Yale Review. 02/2019.
https://yalereview.yale.edu/poetry-review-nine-rec...
- Review of "Nightingale" for National Public Radio. 01/21/2019.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/686349087/-i-reject...
- SLUG magazine profile on Mapping Salt Lake City. 11/30/2017.
- City Weekly profile/interview for The Broken Country. 09/27/2017.
- Review of Imaginary Vessels in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. 11/11/2016.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-p...
- Review of Imaginary Vessels in NYLON Magazine. 11/01/2016.
- Review of Imaginary Vessels in American Poet Magazine. 10/01/2016.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/book/imaginary-vess...
- Mapping Salt Lake City chosen by City Weekly for "Best of Utah Arts" edition: Best Archival Collage Project. 09/14/2016.
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/best-of-utah-arts-2...
- Interview with Fogged Clarity. 08/01/2016.
http://foggedclarity.com/article/paisley-rekdal/
- Imaginary Vessels selected by Publisher's Weekly as a "Most Anticipated Book" of 2016. 07/26/2016.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/indust...
- Featured Reader/Speaker at the National Book Festival, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 08/10/2014.
- Interview with Library of Congress. 08/2013.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/interviews/rekdal.html
- Academy of American Poets, Poem-Flow App. "Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner.". 01/25/2013.
http://poemflow.com/1760
- "Murano" in The New Republic. 12/2012.
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine...
- Publisher's Weekly, "Best Books of 2012" selection for Animal Eye. 11/2012.
- Interview on "Words on a Wire". 11/2012.
http://ktep.org/post/words-wire-paisley-rekdal-exp...
- National Public Radio "All Things Considered". 07/2012.
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/10/156543220/newspoet-p...
- "Closer" on Poetry Daily. 06/2012.
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=15394
- "Intimacy" on Academy of American Poets Page. 04/2012.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22906
- Review on Slate. 04/2012.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/03/p...
- "Why Some Girls Love Horses" in The Missouri Review. 10/2008.
http://www.missourireview.com/archives/paisley-rek...
- My Poetry Foundation Website Page. 06/2007.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paisley-rekdal