Brian Blanchfield
{{Short description|American poet and essayist}}
Brian Blanchfield is an American poet and essayist.
Early life and education
He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1973, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Warren Wilson College.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/brian-blanchfield |title=Brian Blanchfield |publisher=Poetry Foundation |date= |accessdate=2017-04-25}} He is the author of two books of poetry, Not Even Then (2004) and A Several World (2014), and a book of essays/autobiography, Proxies (2016).
Writings
A Several World was the 2014 recipient of the James Laughlin Award{{cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award|title=James Laughlin Award|website=Poets.org|accessdate=2017-04-25}} and was a longlist finalist for the National Book Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2014#poetry |title=2014 National Book Awards |website=Nationalbook.org |date=2014-10-15 |accessdate=2017-04-25}} The book takes its title from a 17th-century poem by Robert Herrick, and deals with questions about subjectivity and individuality versus the collective.{{cite web|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/the-poets/|title=National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists|website=Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com|date=16 September 2014 |accessdate=2017-04-25}} Proxies is a collection of 24 single-subject essays that concludes with a 21-page rolling endnote, "Correction." In a starred review, Publishers Weekly noted that "in each entry Blanchfield picks a subject—foot washing, authorship, owls—and examines it from several angles until the connection between metaphysical principle and lived experience suddenly crystallizes, often producing an analogy as surprising as it is lovely."[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-9376-5845-8]{{cite web |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-9376-5845-8 |accessdate=2019-03-04}}
Blanchfield's poems and essays have been published by The Nation,{{cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/authors/brian-blanchfield/ |title=Brian Blanchfield |publisher=The Nation |date=2012-09-18 |accessdate=2017-04-25}} Harper's Magazine,{{cite journal|url=http://harpers.org/archive/2015/11/theres-the-rub/|title=There's the Rub|first=Brian|last=Blanchfield|journal=Harper's Magazine |date=1 November 2015|publisher=Harpers}} BOMB,{{cite web|url=http://bombmagazine.org/article/03981124/on-dossiers-permitting-shame-error-and-guilt-myself-the-single-source |title=On Dossiers, Permitting Shame, Error and Guilt, Myself the Single Source |author=Brian Blanchfield |website=Bobmmagazine.org |accessdate=2017-04-25}} The Paris Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6059/smalltown-lift-brian-blanchfield |title=Smalltown Lift |publisher=Paris Review |date= |accessdate=2017-04-25}} Brick,{{cite web |url=http://brickmag.com/issues/brick94 |title=Brick 94 | Brick Magazine |accessdate=2016-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224131618/http://brickmag.com/issues/brick94 |archivedate=2016-02-24 }} Conjunctions,{{cite web |url=http://conjunctions.com/webcon/blanchfield13.htm |title=Web Conjunctions: Two Onesheets, by Brian Blanchfield |website=Conjunctions.com |accessdate=2017-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220080125/http://conjunctions.com/webcon/blanchfield13.htm |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }} Guernica,{{cite web |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/tag/brian-blanchfield/ |title=Tag for "brian blanchfield - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics |accessdate=2016-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054148/https://www.guernicamag.com/tag/brian-blanchfield/ |archivedate=2016-03-04 }} and other publications.
Professional activities
He has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute, Otis College of Art and Design, the University of Montana, the University of Arizona, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He currently teaches as an associate professor at the University of Idaho.{{cite web|url=https://poetry.arizona.edu/people/brian-blanchfield |title=people |date= 28 January 2015|accessdate=2019-02-24}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uidaho.edu/class/english/faculty-staff/brian-blanchfield |title=Brian Blanchfield |date= |accessdate=2021-02-22}}
In 2010 he became a poetry editor of Fence{{cite web |url=http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=50 |title=about |publisher=Fence Portal |date= |accessdate=2017-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405133405/http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=50 |archive-date=2017-04-05 |url-status=dead }} and in 2015–16 was guest editor of the PEN Poetry Series.{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/topic/poetry-series |title=PEN American Center |accessdate=2016-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301200201/http://www.pen.org/topic/poetry-series |archivedate=2016-03-01 }} He hosted and produced episodes 1-32 of Speedway and Swan, a poetry and music radio show on KXCI Community Radio in Tucson, Arizona.[https://poetry.arizona.edu/visit/speedway-swan]{{cite web |date=10 November 2015 |title=Speedway & Swan |url=https://poetry.arizona.edu/visit/speedway-swan |accessdate=2019-03-04}}
Bibliography
= Poetry and essays books =
- Not Even Then (University of California Press, 2004){{cite news |last1=Burt |first1=Stephen |date=21 November 2004 |title=Poetry : Happy as Two Blueplate Specials |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/books/review/poetry-happy-as-two-blueplate-specials.html |accessdate=2017-04-25 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
- A Several World (Nightboat Books, 2014){{cite web |author=Tue, 01/13/2015 - 10:23am |date=2015-01-13 |title=Brian Blanchfield's A SEVERAL WORLD |url=http://www.iowareview.org/blog/brian-blanchfields-several-world |accessdate=2017-04-25 |publisher=The Iowa Review}}{{cite web |date=2014-09-23 |title=Lambda Literary |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/review/09/23/a-several-world-by-brian-blanchfield/ |accessdate=2017-04-25 |publisher=Lambda Literary}}
- Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat Books, 2016){{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-9376-5845-8 |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield|website=Publishersweekly.com |date=2016-02-22 |accessdate=2017-04-25}}
= Shorter publications =
- The History of Ideas, 1973-2012 (Spork Press, 2013)
- Correction. (Essay Press, 2016)[http://www.essaypress.org/ep-54/]{{cite web |date=15 February 2016 |title=EP 54, Essay Press |url=http://www.essaypress.org/ep-54/ |accessdate=2019-03-04}}
Honors and awards
= Honors =
- George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship (2015–2016){{cite web |author=Brown University |date= |title=Previous Fellowship Awardees, Howard Foundation |url=https://www.brown.edu/howard-foundation/about/previous-fellowship-awardees |accessdate=2017-04-25 |website=Brown.edu}}
= Literary awards =
- James Laughlin Award (2014){{cite web |title=The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2014 American Poets Prizes | Academy of American Poets |url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2014-american-poets-prizes |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505164940/https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2014-american-poets-prizes |archivedate=2016-05-05 |accessdate=2016-03-24}}
- Whiting Award for Nonfiction (2016){{cite web |date=23 March 2016 |title=Announcing The Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/23/whiting-2016/ |accessdate=2017-04-25 |website=Theparisreview.org}}{{cite news |date=March 23, 2016 |title=10 Young Writers Receive $50,000 Whiting Awards |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/23/arts/ap-us-books-whiting-awards.html |accessdate=24 March 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.pen.org/four-poems-brian-blanchfield-0/ PEN America]
- [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/brian-blanchfield/ Academy of American Poets Author Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151222170914/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_p_blanchfield.html#.VnGZGsArI19/ National Book Award]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150909001439/http://www.nightboat.org/author/brian-blanchfield Nightboat Books Author Page]
- [http://www.pen.org/interview/three-questions-brian-blanchfield/ Editor Interview]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151222114119/https://kxci.org/programs/speedway-swan/ Speedway and Swan, KXCI]
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:University of North Carolina alumni
Category:University of Idaho faculty
Category:American LGBTQ writers