Rebecca Hazelton Explained

Rebecca Hazelton Stafford
Birth Place:Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation:Poet, professor, editor
Nationality:American
Education:Davidson College (BA)
University of Notre Dame (MFA)
Florida State University (PhD)
Notableworks:Fair Copy
Awards:Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry[1] [2]

Rebecca Hazelton Stafford (born 1978) is an American poet and editor.

Early life

Rebecca Hazelton was born in 1978 in Richmond, Virginia.[3] She graduated from Davidson College in 2000,[4] receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English; University of Notre Dame, where she got her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry; and Florida State University where she received her Ph.D. in English and Poetry.[5]

Career

A former editor at The Southeast Review and Devil's Lake, Hazelton presently reviews contemporary poetry for Southern Indiana Review.[6] [7] She was also a member of the English faculty of Beloit College from 2011 to 2012.[8] She was then on the creative writing faculty of Oklahoma State University.[9] Her poetry has been published in various journals such as FIELD, Pleiades, and The Sycamore Review.[10] She serves as assistant professor of English at North Central College.[11] Her poem "Letter to the Editor" was published in The New Yorker in May 2016.[12] [13]

With her former Davidson professor Alan Michael Parker, Hazelton is editor of the Manifesto Project.

Hazelton is the author of four collections of poetry: Fair Copy (2012, for which she won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry), Vow (2013), No Girls No Telephones (written with Brittany Cavallaro and published in 2013), and Bad Star (2013). In Fair Copy, Hazelton engages with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, using the first lines of Dickinson poems as acrostics from which Hazelton wrote her own poems. (Begun on Hazelton's 29th birthday, the project used the first line of every 29th poem from The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson.)[14] Reviewing the collection in The Emily Dickinson Journal, Christina Pugh said Hazelton's "handling of line is often astonishingly virtuosic, and [her] material is only 'personal' in the coyest and most mercurial of ways," noting that these qualities echo Dickinson's own body of work.[15]

A Publishers Weekly review of Vow said that "real bodies and adult relationships mingle and complement one another in this clear, witty second effort from Hazelton," noting "her elegantly colloquial" style.[16]

Hazelton's work has been anthologized in the Best New Poets series in 2011[17] and The Best American Poetry series in 2013 ("Book of Forget") and 2015 ("My Husband").[18] [19]

Awards

Works

Books

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rebecca Hazelton. Poetry Foundation. 21 August 2016. n.d..
  2. Web site: Rebecca Hazelton: "We'll Fix It In Post". The Missouri Review. University of Missouri. 21 August 2016. 18 August 2014.
  3. Book: Lehman . David . The Best American Poetry 2013 . 2013 . Simon and Schuster . 9781476708140 . en.
  4. Web site: Called to Action: Professor and Alumna Craft Anthology for Our Times. www.davidson.edu. en. 2018-01-11.
  5. Web site: Interview with Rebecca Hazelton. Adkisson. Tory. April 13, 2012. The Journal. en-US. 2018-06-06.
  6. Web site: Alumni. Department of English. University of Notre Dame. 21 August 2016. n.d..
  7. Web site: Hazelton. Rebecca. HobbyHorse. Southern Indiana Review. University of Southern Indiana. https://web.archive.org/web/20141018151952/http://www.usi.edu/sir/hobbyhorse/. 18 October 2014. n.d..
  8. Author biography, Beloit College. https://www.beloit.edu/campus/news/?story_id=332186
  9. Author biography, Cleveland State University Poetry Center. http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/
  10. Author biography, Beloit College. https://www.beloit.edu/campus/news/?story_id=340373
  11. Web site: rhstafford . 2024-03-22 . www.northcentralcollege.edu . en.
  12. Author biography, North Central College. https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/news/2016/05/16/staffords-poetry-published-new-yorker
  13. Hazelton . Rebecca . 2016-05-09 . "Letter to the Editor" . 2024-03-22 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  14. Web site: A More Ordinary Poet. Johnson. David. 2013-05-17. Boston Review. en. 2018-06-06.
  15. Pugh. Christina. 2013-04-18. Fair Copy by Hazelton, Rebecca, and: The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems by Legault, Paul (review). The Emily Dickinson Journal. en. 22. 1. 100–102. 10.1353/edj.2013.0001. 170336130. 1096-858X.
  16. News: Fiction Book Review: Vow by Rebecca Hazelton. Cleveland State Univ, $15.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-9860257-0-9. June 24, 2013. Publishers Weekly. 2018-06-06. en.
  17. Web site: Best New Poets 2011: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. University of Virginia Press. 5 November 2012.
  18. Book: Lehman, David. The Best American Poetry 2013. 2013-09-10. Simon and Schuster. 9781476708140. en.
  19. Book: The Best American Poetry 2015. Lehman. David. Alexie. Sherman. 2015-09-08. Simon and Schuster. 9781476708218. 59. en.
  20. Web site: Hazelton - Vow. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 5 November 2012.
  21. Web site: Hazelton - Bad Star. YesYes Books. 5 November 2012.
  22. Web site: Hazelton - "Gold Empire". Boston Review. 5 November 2012.
  23. Web site: Hazelton - Fair Copy. Ohio State University Press. 5 November 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130117024706/http://english.osu.edu/creative-writing/journal-0/charles-b-wheeler-prize. 17 January 2013.
  24. Web site: Hazelton - Current and Former Fellows. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 5 November 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121101045510/http://www.creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellows.html. 1 November 2012.
  25. News: Book Review: No Girls No Telephones by Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton. Purcell. Andrew. 2015-05-15. The Los Angeles Review. 2018-01-11. en-US.

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