Alison Townsend
{{short description|American poet}}
Alison Townsend (born Pennsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American poet.
Life
She grew up in New York. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Her work has appeared in Calyx,{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndNZAAAAMAAJ&q=Alison+Townsend |title = Calyx|year = 2003}} Clackamas Literary Review,{{Cite web |url=http://www.clackamasliteraryreview.org/issues.php?issueID=21 |title=CLR - Issues - 2004 |access-date=2009-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105032751/http://www.clackamasliteraryreview.org/issues.php?issueID=21 |archive-date=2009-01-05 |url-status=dead }} Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review.
She is married and lives outside Madison, Wisconsin.{{cite web | url=http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_four/Alison_Townsend.html | title=Alison Townsend: Response & Bio }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/flumepress/chapbook_22.html |title=Flume Press: CSU, Chico |access-date=2009-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907205838/http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/flumepress/chapbook_22.html |archive-date=2009-09-07 |url-status=dead }}
Awards
- 2009 Pushcart Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.uww.edu/marketingandmedia/news_releases/2009_05_townsend_pushcart.php |title=Alison Townsend earns Pushcart Prize for poem 'The Favorite' - University Marketing and Media Relations - UW-Whitewater |website=www.uww.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606014700/http://www.uww.edu/marketingandmedia/news_releases/2009_05_townsend_pushcart.php |archive-date=2010-06-06}}
- 2008 Crab Orchard Award
- 2004 Diner poetry contest
Works
- [http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/posters/townsend.html#Townsend "Jane Morris Poses For Rossetti’s Proserpine"; "Demeter Faces Facts", Mudlark Poster No. 79, 2009]
- [http://www.rattle.com/blog/2008/07/spin-by-alison-townsend/ "Spin", Rattle, July 2008]
=Poetry=
- {{cite book| title=Persephone in America | publisher=Southern Illinois University Press | year=2009 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zR3X4Wpc_AwC | isbn=978-0-809328-96-3 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Blue Dress: Poems | publisher=White Pine| year=2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ej0tftt2kIC&q=Alison+Townsend| isbn=978-1-893996-61-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=What The Body Knows | publisher=Parallel Press| year=2002| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Akq15nTkS1gC&q=Alison+Townsend| isbn=978-1-893311-25-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=And Still The Music | year=2007| publisher=Flume Press| isbn=978-1-886226-12-8 }}(Flume Press chapbook prize winner, 2007).
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation| url=https://archive.org/details/boomergirlspoems0000unse| url-access=registration|editor1=Pamela Gemin |editor2=Paula Sergi| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87745-687-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife| editor=Pamela Gemin| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=2003| isbn=978-0-87745-850-0| url=https://archive.org/details/areyouexperience0000unse}}
- {{cite book| title=The best American poetry, 2006|editor1=Billy Collins |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Scribner Poetry| year=2006| isbn=978-0-7432-5759-6| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780743229678}}
=Essays=
- {{cite book| title=The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water | publisher=Burrow Press | year=2017 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDrxnAAACAAJ | isbn=978-1-941681-83-1 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080830095008/http://www.uww.edu/cls/success/faculty/townsend_alison.html "Faculty Essay: The World Outside My Window - balancing teaching and the creative life", ENVISION Magazine, Winter 2007]
References
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