Talvikki Ansel Explained

Talvikki Ansel
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Mount Holyoke College, Indiana University Bloomington
Genre:	Poetry
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Talvikki Ansel is an American poet. She was chosen as a winner by James Dickey, for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.

Life

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University Bloomington. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah.

She teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

Awards

• Lannan Foundation resident, Marfa, Spring 2006.^[1]
• Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, from Stanford University
• Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.

Works

• World, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2001
• Bird Calls, Blackbird, Spring 2002
• Swallows, Blackbird, Spring 2002
• Seed Savers, Poetry Magazine, January/February 2007
• Mycorrhizae, Poetry, Volume CLXXXVI, Number 3 June 2005
• Tree List, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003
• Or Stay Again, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003
• Blue Collection, Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003^[2]

Books

• My Shining Archipelago, Yale University Press, 1997.,
• Jetty Lincoln, Neb.: Zoo Press, 2003.,

Reviews

With admirable economy, the title Jetty announces two significant features of Talvikki Ansel's second book: the liminal vantage-point of the narrators of these poems and the curious ways in which the human world intersects with the natural.^[3]

External links

• Where Poetry Outgrows Hobby Status, BILL SLOCUM, The New York Times, June 22, 1997

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lannan Foundation . Lannan.org . 2016-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120218235100/http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/talvikki-ansel/ . 2012-02-18 . dead .
2. Web site: Prairie Schooner Article Archives - HighBeam Research. 20 September 2016.
3. Web site: Review - Jetty & Other Poems, by Talvikki Ansel. 20 September 2016.