Jill alexander essbaum biography sample

  • Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry including Heaven (winner of the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, UPNE, 2000).
  • Jill Alexander Essbaum is an American poet, writer, and professor.
  • She is a poetry professor at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program.

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    Essbaum, Jill Alexander

    PERSONAL:

    Ethnicity: "White." Education: Institution of higher education of Texas, M.A.; Priest Theological Training ground dispatch of say publicly Southwest, M.A.R.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Austin, TX; Metropolis, Switzerland. E-mail—[email protected].

    CAREER:

    Poet. Concordia Lincoln, Austin, TX, faculty fellow, 2000-05; Lincoln of Texas, visiting versemaker, 2007.

    AWARDS, HONORS:

    Bakeless Literary Reporting Prize daily Poetry, Clams Loaf Writers' Conference, 1999, for Heaven; National Subvention for interpretation Arts confer, 2003.

    WRITINGS:

    POETRY

    Heaven, Academia Press round New England (Hanover, NH), 2000.

    Oh Forbidden, Pecan Wood Press (San Antonio, TX), 2005.

    Harlot, No Tell Books, 2007.

    Necropolis, neoNuma Arts (Houston, TX), 2008.

    Contributor to periodicals, including Artful Doge, Borderlands, No Relate Motel, 42Opus, Poetry, Graphic, Christian c National 1 Review, Rhino, and Texas Observer.

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    Jill Alexander Essbaum Biography

    Jill Alexander Essbaum was born 1971 in Bay City, Texas. She is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas.

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      Author's Statement

      I spent the early years of my writing life working hard to become a particular kind of writer. I had certain ideas--nay, visions!--about the ways I thought--nay, knew!--my poems ought to look, and act, and dress which was, in a word, PROPER. Formal. Like: They best leave MY house looking GOOD, dammit! I was little more than a poetry stage mother; they were the girls who smiled pretty for my camera. Mind you, I was good at my job. On the reader's end it presented as a very tidy operation that made for a nice, tidy poem. But on the writer's end it was often like trying to dress a wet ferret in doll clothes: a squirmy, frustrating, ridiculous process.

      But children grow up and darling daughters turn sullen and insolent and Shirley Temple takes on a Honey Boo Boo temperament. So I surrendered. I don't try anymore to fit my poems into a fixed idea of what poetry is or ought to be--that's like cramming a size twelve ass into a size 6 dress. I've come around. 

      And that's the best thing that could have happened.

      Because the poet doesn't define the poem. The poems define the poet. It took me 41 stupid years to figure that out.

      This is a long way around getting to the question, What does this grant mean to me at this time?

      The answer is