Susan Tichy

Susan Elizabeth Tichy (born 25 April 1952, in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet.[1]

Susan Tichy
Born (1952-04-25) April 25, 1952
Washington, D.C.
Alma materGoddard College;
University of Colorado at Boulder
GenrePoetry
Notable awards1982 National Poetry Series

Life

She received a B.A. from Goddard College and an M.A. from the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the MFA and undergraduate programs.[2] For five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics, and also served as poetry editor for the short-lived but gorgeously produced journal, "'Practice: New Writing + Art," based in the Bay area.

Her work has appeared in AGNI,[3] Beloit Poetry Journal,[4] Cerise Press, Colorado Review, Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review,[5] Ploughshares,[6] 42opus,[7] Runes, and other journals.

She also lives in the southern Colorado Rockies.

Awards
  • 1982 National Poetry Series, for The Hands in Exile
  • Eugene Kayden Award
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal
  • Indiana Review Prize for Poetry
  • Runes Prize for Poetry
  • Quarter After Eight Prize for Innovative Prose

Works
  • "VERSARI", Beltway Poetry Quarterly
  • A Smell of Burning Starts the Day. Wesleyan University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8195-1154-6.
  • The Hands in Exile. Random House. 1983. ISBN 978-0-394-52977-6.
  • Bone Pagoda. Ahsahta Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-916272-91-3.
  • Gallowglass. Ahsahta Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-934103-13-5.
  • Trafficke. Ahsahta Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-934103-60-9.

Anthologies
  • William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.
  • Dave Smith; David Bottoms, eds. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4.

Reviews

In Bone Pagoda, Susan Tichy’s third full-length collection of poetry and her first in nearly 20 years, the poet explores the stark and horrifying realities of war and its aftermath through a fierce lyricism, an insistent and bodily music that urges the reader to say these poems aloud.[8]

gollark: Possibly because people don't trust the American government to do things sensibly.
gollark: Banning some things works, banning some things breaks horribly.
gollark: You can't get addicted to lead.
gollark: I mean...
gollark: Solution: make all guns from radioactive materials so people don't want to have them.

References
  1. Europa Publications (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 323. ISBN 9781857431780. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  2. "Susan Tichy | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  3. "AGNI Online: Author Susan Tichy". bu.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  4. "BPJ - Beloit Poetry Journal - Poem by Susan Tichy, Stork". bpj.org. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  5. Indiana Review. 25. Indiana University Board of Trustees. 2003. ISSN 0738-386X. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". pshares.org. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  7. "42opus | Adrian Lurssen & Susan Tichy | Dear with Extremes of Thirst and Pain". 42opus.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  8. "R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Summer 2007". Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
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