Christopher Bakken
{{short description|American poet}}
Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, chef, travel writer, and professor at Allegheny College.{{Cite web|url=http://sites.allegheny.edu/english/faculty/christopher-bakken/|title=Christopher Bakken, Department Chair « English {{!}} Allegheny College – Meadville, PA|website=sites.allegheny.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-20}}
He graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. and from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. He was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/633 |title=PEN American Center - Authors |accessdate=2010-06-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607162451/http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/633 |archivedate=2011-06-07 }} He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos.{{Cite web |url=http://www.writingworkshopsingreece.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2022-02-21 |archive-date=2019-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524031000/http://www.writingworkshopsingreece.com/ |url-status=dead }}
His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Western Humanities Review.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/christopher_bakken|title=Christopher Bakken|website=Poets & Writers|date=25 July 2005 }} His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University).
His burger recipe won a Food & Wine contest.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/greek-island-lamb-burgers-with-grilled-feta|title=Greek Island Lamb Burgers with Grilled Feta Recipe|website=Food & Wine}}
Works
= Books =
- Eternity & Oranges. Pitt Poetry Series, 2016. {{ISBN|9780822964049}}
- Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table University of California Press, 2013, {{ISBN|9780520275096}}
- Goat Funeral Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, {{ISBN|9781931357388}}
- After Greece Truman State University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|9781931112000}}
=Translations=
- The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, Translated Christopher Bakken, Roula Konsolaki, Truman State University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|9781931112642}}
=Poems=
- [http://www.missourireview.com/archives/christopher-bakken-confession/ "Confession"] The Missouri Review 2012
- [http://www.versedaily.org/2009/alongstrada.shtml "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti"], Parnassus: Poetry in Review via Poetry Daily. 2009.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823141013/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2006/bakken.html "Portrait Detail, with Pear"], AGNI 2006
- [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lesvos "Lesvos"] Academy of American Poets 2016
- [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/driving-beast "Driving the Beast"]. Academy of American Poets 2017
- "[http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/gorgona-by-christopher-bakken/ Gorgona]." Juxtaprose
=Anthologies=
- Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, Truman State University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|1-931112-37-1}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=sdxJOtDmPywC&dq=Christopher+Bakken&pg=PA25 "Ohio Elegy"], Poets against the War, Editors Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-1-56025-539-0}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&dq=Christopher+Bakken&pg=PA437 "Home Thoughts, from Abroad"], Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951–1977, Editor William J. Walsh, Mercer University Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-88146-047-6}}
Reviews
- Review of Eternity & Oranges in [http://www.theliteraryreview.org/book-review/a-review-of-eternity-oranges-by-christopher-bakken/ The Literary Review]
- Review of Eternity & Oranges at [http://www.americanmicroreviews.com/eternity-and-oranges-by-christopher-bakken/ American Microreviews]
If Bakken can, in the future, stay put in his resplendent Hellenic-inflected imagination for a good while, and avoid the art museum and his personal library, he may just write a book with the smell, taste, and texture of ambrosia. Goat Funeral isn’t quite that, but it’s not chopped liver, either.{{cite journal |title=Goat Funeral |url=http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/christopher-bakken |last=Sewell |first=David |date=February 7, 2007 |journal=Coldfront Magazine}}
Awards
- 2008 Fulbright Scholar: University of Bucharest
- 2005 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
- 2006 Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters
- 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for After Greece.
References
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External links
- [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324020504578396493499646144 Review of HONEY, OLIVES, OCTOPUS in Wall Street Journal]
- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/food-riot/honey-olives-octopus_b_3923923.html Hunting for Octopus and Cooking for Michael Pollan]
- [http://firstbookinterviews.blogspot.com/2008/10/2-christopher-bakken.html "#3 – Christopher Bakken"], First Book Interviews, October 13, 2008
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Category:Writers from Madison, Wisconsin
Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Category:University of Houston alumni
Category:Allegheny College faculty
Category:Academic staff of the University of Bucharest