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'''Chase Twichell''' (born 1950) is an [[United States|American]] poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been'' ([[Copper Canyon Press]], 2010).<ref>[http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=chase+twichell&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick Library of Congress Online Catalog > Chase Twichell]</ref> She is the winner of several awards in writing from the [[New Jersey State Council on the Arts]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation,'' and ''The Yale Review.''<ref>[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/poetry/twichell_c/index.htm ''Blackbird'' > Chase Twichell Bio]</ref>


'''Chase Twichell''' (born August 20, 1950)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n81017543 |title=Library of Congress Authorities |work=LCNAF [[Cataloging in Publication]] data - LC Control Number: n 81017543 |publisher=[[Library of Congress|LOC]] |access-date=June 10, 2012 }}</ref> is an [[American poet]], professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been <ref name=auto>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/horses-where-the-answers-should-have-been-by-chase-twichell/|title=Copper Canyon Press. |access-date=2013-05-13 }}</ref>'' ([[Copper Canyon Press]], 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 [[Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=Chase+Twichell&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&searchType=0&recCount=14&sk=en_US|title=LC Catalog - No Connections Available|website=catalog.loc.gov}}</ref><ref name=auto/>
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Many of Twichell's poems are heavily influenced by her years as a [[Zen Buddhist]] student of [[John Daido Loori]] at [[Zen Mountain Monastery]], and her poetry in the book ''The Snow Watcher'' shows it.<ref>[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6985 The Poetry Foundation > Poet > Chase Twichell Biography]</ref><ref>[http://www.blueflowerarts.com/chase-twichell Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio]</ref> She attended the [[Foote School]] in New Haven. In the Fall 2003 ''[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|Tricycle magazine]]'' interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind. I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways. Zen is a wonderful sieve through which to pour a poem. It strains out whatever's inessential."


==Life and work==
Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her B.A. from [[Trinity College (Connecticut)| Trinity College]] and her M.F.A. from the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]]. She lives in [[New York]] with her husband, novelist [[Russell Banks]]. She has taught at [[Princeton University]], [[Warren Wilson College]], [[Goddard College]], [[University of Alabama]], and [[Hampshire College]].<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/29 Academy of American Poets > Chase Twichell Bio]</ref><ref>[http://www.ausablepress.org/b_chase.html Ausable Press > About the Editor]</ref><ref>[http://www.blueflowerarts.com/chase-twichell Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio]</ref>
Twichell was born in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], and earned her B.A. from [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] and her M.F.A. from the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]]. She was married to novelist [[Russell Banks]] from 1989 until his death in 2023.<ref name = Chace>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/books/russell-banks-dead.html|title = Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = January 8, 2023|accessdate = January 8, 2023|last = Chace|first = Rebecca|url-access = limited}}</ref> She has taught at [[Princeton University]], [[Warren Wilson College]], [[Goddard College]], [[University of Alabama]], and [[Hampshire College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/chase-twichell|title=Chase Twichell|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|website=Poets.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ausablepress.org/b_chase.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718190732/http://www.ausablepress.org/b_chase.html|url-status=dead|title=Ausable Press > About the Editor|archivedate=18 July 2008}}</ref><ref name="blueflowerarts.com"/>


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Many of Twichell's poems are heavily influenced by her years as a [[Zen Buddhist]] student of [[John Daido Loori]] at [[Zen Mountain Monastery]], and her poetry in the book ''The Snow Watcher'' shows it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/chase-twichell|title=Chase Twichell|website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref><ref name="blueflowerarts.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.blueflowerarts.com/chase-twichell|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115034418/http://www.blueflowerarts.com/chase-twichell|url-status=dead|title=Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio|archivedate=15 January 2010}}</ref> She attended the [[Foote School]] in New Haven. In the Fall 2003 ''[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|Tricycle magazine]]'' interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind. I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways. Zen is a wonderful sieve through which to pour a poem. It strains out whatever's inessential."
==Published Works==
'''Full-Length Poetry Collections'''
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* ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been'' (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
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* ''The Snow Watcher'' (Ontario Review Press, 1998)
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* ''The Ghost of Eden'' (Ontario Review Press, 1995)
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* ''Perdido'' ([[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]], 1991)
* ''Northern Spy: Poems''(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981)
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* ''Dog Language'' (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
* ''The Odds'' ([[University of Pittsburgh Press]], 1986)


=== Awards and recognition ===
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'''Anthologies Edited'''
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Twichell is the winner of several awards in writing from the [[New Jersey State Council on the Arts]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Field (magazine)|Field]]'', ''[[Ploughshares]]'', ''[[The Georgia Review]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', ''[[Poetry magazine|Poetry]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', and ''[[The Yale Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v3n1/poetry/twichell_c/index.htm|title=Chase Twichell, Blackbird|website=blackbird-archive.vcu.edu}}</ref>
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* ''The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach'' (edited with Robin Behn: HarperPernnial, 1992)


Twichell was a judge for the 2011 [[Griffin Poetry Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://griffinpoetryprize.com/judges/prize-year/2011/|title=Judges}}</ref>
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'''Translations'''
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* ''The Lover of God'', Poems by [[Rabindranath Tagore]], ([[Copper Canyon Press]], 2003) (translated with Tony K. Stewart)


== References ==
==Bibliography==
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=== Poetry ===
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* {{cite book |author=Twichell, Chase |title=Northern spy : poems |location=Pittsburgh |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=1981 <!--|isbn=082293437X-->}}
* {{cite book |author=Twichell, Chase |author-mask=1 |title=The odds |location=Pittsburgh |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=1986}}
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* ''Perdido'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991)
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* ''The Ghost of Eden'' (Ontario Review Press, 1995)
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* ''The Snow Watcher'' (Ontario Review Press, 1998)
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* ''Dog Language'' (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
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* ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been'' (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
* ''Things as It Is'' (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
;List of poems
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|Roadkill
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|{{cite journal |author=Twichell, Chase |date=January 6, 2014 |title=Roadkill |journal=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=43 |pages=33 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/roadkill-2 <!--access-date=2018-01-05-->}}
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|Featherweight
|2022
|{{cite journal |author=Twichell, Chase |date=May 16, 2022 |title=Featherweight |journal=The New Yorker |volume=98 |issue=12 |pages=64–65 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/featherweight <!--|access-date=2023-08-10-->}}
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;Anthologies edited
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* ''The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach'' (edited with Robin Behn: HarperPerennial, 1992)
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;Translations
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* ''The Lover of God'', Poems by Rabindranath Tagore (Copper Canyon Press, 2003) (translated with Tony K. Stewart)

==References==
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==External Links==
==External links==
* [http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/twichell/intro.html Author Biography: ''PoetryNet'' > August 1998 > Chase Twichell]
* [http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/twichell/intro.html Author Biography: ''PoetryNet'' > August 1998 > Chase Twichell]
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=146729 Poem: The Poetry Foundation > ''Self-Portrait'' by Chase Twichell]
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=146729 Poem: The Poetry Foundation > ''Self-Portrait'' by Chase Twichell]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/poetry/twichell_c/index.htm Poems & Bio: ''Blackbird'' > Chase Twichell]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/poetry/twichell_c/index.htm Poems & Bio: ''Blackbird'' > Chase Twichell]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120321162518/http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/mosaic/10.99/twichell.htm Perceiving human consciousness through award-winning poetry] Hartford Trinity College ''Mosaic''

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Latest revision as of 14:00, 27 December 2024

Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[3][2]

Life and work

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Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned her B.A. from Trinity College and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was married to novelist Russell Banks from 1989 until his death in 2023.[4] She has taught at Princeton University, Warren Wilson College, Goddard College, University of Alabama, and Hampshire College.[5][6][7]

Many of Twichell's poems are heavily influenced by her years as a Zen Buddhist student of John Daido Loori at Zen Mountain Monastery, and her poetry in the book The Snow Watcher shows it.[8][7] She attended the Foote School in New Haven. In the Fall 2003 Tricycle magazine interview with Chase, she says, "Zazen and poetry are both studies of the mind. I find the internal pressure exerted by emotion and by a koan to be similar in surprising and unpredictable ways. Zen is a wonderful sieve through which to pour a poem. It strains out whatever's inessential."

Awards and recognition

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Twichell is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The Yale Review.[9]

Twichell was a judge for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.[10]

Bibliography

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Poetry

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Collections
  • Twichell, Chase (1981). Northern spy : poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • — (1986). The odds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Perdido (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991)
  • The Ghost of Eden (Ontario Review Press, 1995)
  • The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998)
  • Dog Language (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
  • Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
  • Things as It Is (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Roadkill 2014 Twichell, Chase (January 6, 2014). "Roadkill". The New Yorker. 89 (43): 33.
Featherweight 2022 Twichell, Chase (May 16, 2022). "Featherweight". The New Yorker. 98 (12): 64–65.
Anthologies edited
  • The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach (edited with Robin Behn: HarperPerennial, 1992)
Translations
  • The Lover of God, Poems by Rabindranath Tagore (Copper Canyon Press, 2003) (translated with Tony K. Stewart)

References

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  1. ^ "Library of Congress Authorities". LCNAF Cataloging in Publication data - LC Control Number: n 81017543. LOC. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Copper Canyon Press". Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  3. ^ "LC Catalog - No Connections Available". catalog.loc.gov.
  4. ^ Chace, Rebecca (January 8, 2023). "Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  5. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Chase Twichell". Poets.org.
  6. ^ "Ausable Press > About the Editor". Archived from the original on 18 July 2008.
  7. ^ a b "Blue Flower Arts > Author Booking Agency > Chase Twichell Bio". Archived from the original on 15 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Chase Twichell". The Poetry Foundation.
  9. ^ "Chase Twichell, Blackbird". blackbird-archive.vcu.edu.
  10. ^ "Judges".
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