Elise Paschen
{{short description|American poet and member of the Osage Nation}}
Elise Paschen is an American poet and member of the Osage Nation. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country.
Career and education
The daughter of renowned prima ballerina Maria Tallchief and Chicago contractor Henry D. Paschen, she was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended the Francis W. Parker School. Paschen is a member of the Osage Nation.{{cite web|title=Elise Paschen|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elise-paschen|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=October 23, 2021}}[http://www.osagetribe.com/executive/event_detail.aspx?news_id=1454 "The Osage Nation will host Writers Summit."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926195808/http://www.osagetribe.com/executive/event_detail.aspx?news_id=1454 |date=2013-09-26 }} Osage Nation. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
While an undergraduate at Harvard University, Paschen received the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for poetry, and served as Poetry Editor of the Harvard Advocate. At Oxford University, where she received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in 20th Century British and American Literature, she co-founded and co-edited Oxford Poetry.
Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001, she has edited numerous anthologies, including the New York Times bestsellers Poetry Speaks. Her books of poetry include, most recently, The Nightlife, as well as Bestiary, Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry and The Best American Poetry 2018. Her latest poetry book, Tallchief, was a tribute to her mother and was released in October 2023.{{Cite web |last=Shaw Duty |first=Shannon |date=November 13, 2023 |title=Elise Paschen's 'Tallchief' tops Oklahoma Best Sellers List |url=https://osagenews.org/elise-paschens-tallchief-tops-oklahoma-best-sellers-list/ |access-date=January 7, 2024 |website=Osage News}} Her poem "Wi’-gi-e" was credited as inspiration for the title of the non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), which contained her poem and was adapted into the 2023 film of the same name.{{Cite web |last=Hijazi |first=Jennifer |date=February 5, 2018 |title=This Osage writer remembers one of the first victims of infamous 'reign of terror' |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/this-osage-writer-remembers-one-of-the-first-victims-of-infamous-reign-of-terror |access-date=January 7, 2024 |website=PBS}}
Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Stuart Brainerd, and their two children.
Awards
- Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, for Infidelities
- Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for poetry
- Joan Grey Untermyer Poetry Prize
- Richard Selig Poetry Prize
- Frances C. Allen Fellowship
Works
- Houses: Coasts (Sycamore Press, Oxford, 1985)
- Infidelities (Story Line Press, 1996)
- Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009)[http://www.redhen.org/ Red Hen Press]
- The Nightlife (Red Hen Press, 2017){{Cite news|url=https://redhen.org/book/?uuid=5D223581-FD23-727E-347E-8D8491EADFBA|title=Books - Red Hen Press|work=Red Hen Press|access-date=2018-11-19|language=en-US}}
- Tallchief (Magic City Books Press, 2023)
=Anthologies featuring her poems=
- Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America (1997)
- Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (2000)
- The POETRY Anthology, 1912—2002 (2002)
- A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (2007)
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
=Editor or co-editor=
- Poetry in Motion (1996)
- Poetry Speaks (2001)
- Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (2002){{Cite web |url=http://www.mta.info/mta/pim/index.html |title=MTA {{!}} Poetry In Motion |access-date=2008-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125124514/http://www.mta.info/mta/pim/index.html |archive-date=2008-01-25 |url-status=dead }}
- Poetry Speaks to Children (2005){{Cite web |url=https://shop.sourcebooks.com/poetry-speaks-to-children.html |title=Poetry Speaks to Children |access-date=2018-11-19 |archive-date=2019-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028184257/https://shop.sourcebooks.com/poetry-speaks-to-children.html |url-status=dead }}
- Poetry Speaks Expanded (2007)[https://shop.sourcebooks.com/poetry-speaks-expanded.html Poetry Speaks Expanded]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Poetry Speaks Who I Am (2010){{Cite web |url=https://shop.sourcebooks.com/poetry-speaks-who-i-am.html |title=Poetry Speaks Who I Am |access-date=2018-11-19 |archive-date=2019-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028184259/https://shop.sourcebooks.com/poetry-speaks-who-i-am.html |url-status=dead }}
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External links
- [http://www.elisepaschen.com Elise Paschen] author homepage
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309012105/http://www.nativewiki.org/Elise_Paschen Elise Paschen]}} on NativeWiki.
- [https://twitter.com/elisepaschen?lang=en Elise Paschen] on Twitter.
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elise-paschen
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Category:20th-century American women writers
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Category:20th-century Native American people
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Art Institute of Chicago
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Category:Native American poets
Category:Native American women writers
Category:20th-century Native American women
Category:21st-century Native American women