Rusty Morrison
{{short description|American poet and publisher (born 1956)}}
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Rusty Morrison (born July 12, 1956) is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco. She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009. She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, the University of Arizona, Boise State University, Marylhurst University, and Millikin University. In 2001, Morrison and her husband, Ken Keegan, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond, California, and continue to work as co-publishers. She contracted Hepatitis C in her twenties but, like most people diagnosed with this disease, did not experience symptoms for several years. Since then, a focus on issues relating to disability has developed as an area of interest in her writing.
Honors and awards
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 2022: Adelle Foley Award from PEN Oakland
- 2012: Fellowship Award for a four-week Residency at the Vermont Studio Center
- 2010: Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press, selected by Jane Hirshfield, for After Urgency{{cite web|url=http://www.tupelopress.org/prizewinners2009.php |title=> 2009 Contest Winners |publisher=Tupelo Press |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
- 2009: Poet in Residence, MFA in Creative Writing Program, Saint Mary’s College, Spring 2009[http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/schools/school-of-liberal-arts/departments-programs/mfa-creative-writing/visiting-faculty.html Saint Mary’s College > MFA in Creative Writing > Visiting Faculty] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612081722/http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/schools/school-of-liberal-arts/departments-programs/mfa-creative-writing/visiting-faculty.html |date=June 12, 2011 }}
- 2009: George Bogin Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, selected by John Yau{{Cite web |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetynine_poems.html |title=Poetry Society of America > Winners List |access-date=2009-05-27 |archive-date=2020-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313193423/https://poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetynine_poems.html |url-status=dead }}
- 2009: Northern California Book Award for Poetry (for the true keeps calm biding its story)[https://web.archive.org/web/20090714035303/http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.09.html Poetry Flash > Northern California Book Awards]
- 2008: James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets, selected by Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith (for the true keeps calm biding its story)
- 2007: Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, Idaho, selected by Peter Gizzi (for the true keeps calm biding its story)
- 2007: Alice Di Castagnola Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, selected by Susan Howe (for manuscript in progress: the true keeps calm biding its story){{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/#ali_fay_di_cas_awa |title=Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
- 2006: Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, selected by Cal Bedient{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/#cec_hem_mem_awa |title=Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
- 2004: Colorado Prize for Poetry, The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, selected by Forrest Gander (for Whethering){{cite web|url=http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/category/bookstore/prize-for-poetry/ |title=Colorado Prize for Poetry > Previous Winners |publisher=Coloradoreview.colostate.edu |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
- 2003: Robert H. Winner Award, Poetry Society of America, selected by Ron Padgett{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/#rob_h_win_mem_awa |title=Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
- 2002: Lori & Deke Hunter Fellowship (five week residency), Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Published works
=Full-length poetry collections=
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 2014: {{cite book| title=Beyond the Chain Link| publisher=Ahsahta Press | date=February 1, 2014| isbn=978-1934103463 }}
- 2012: {{cite book| title=After Urgency| publisher=Tupelo Press | date=April 30, 2012| isbn=978-1932195415 }}
- 2011: {{cite book| title=Book of the Given| publisher=Noemi Press | date=April 30, 2012| isbn=978-1934819098 }}
- 2008: {{cite book| title=the true keeps calm biding its story| publisher=Ahsahta Press | date=January 1, 2008| isbn=978-0-916272-98-2 }}
- 2004: {{cite book| title=Whethering| publisher=Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University | date=2004 | isbn=978-1-885635-07-5 }}
=Chapbook collections=
- 2011: {{cite book| title=Book of the Given| publisher=Noemi Press| date=2011 | isbn=978-1-934819-09-8 }}
=Periodicals and anthologies=
Morrison's work has been included in an anthology for the literary study of disability, titled Beauty is a Verb. Morrison’s poems have also appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Boston Review,{{cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/morrison1.php |title=Boston Review November/December 2007 |publisher=Bostonreview.net |accessdate=January 12, 2012}} Chicago Review,{{cn|date=November 2023}} Colorado Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V7N1/contributors.html |title=Standards > Contributor Bios |publisher=Colorado.edu |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225025011/http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V7N1/contributors.html |archive-date=December 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }} Gulf Coast, Lana Turner,{{cite web |url=http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/24632/lana-turner-a-journal-of-poetry-and-opinion.aspx |title=SPDBooks.org |publisher=SPDBooks.org |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929134416/http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/24632/lana-turner-a-journal-of-poetry-and-opinion.aspx |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} New American Writing,{{cite web |url=http://www.newamericanwriting.com/current.htm |title=New American Writing |publisher=Newamericanwriting.com |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107230023/http://newamericanwriting.com/current.htm |archivedate=January 7, 2012 }} Pleiades,{{cite web |url=http://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/back_issues/ |title=Pleiades > Volume 23, Number 2 |publisher=Ucmo.edu |accessdate=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225075601/http://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/back_issues/ |archive-date=December 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }} Verse, and VOLT. Her critical writings and creative nonfictions have been published in journals including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Flash,[https://web.archive.org/web/20030419000651/http://www.poetryflash.org/archive.287.Morrison.html Poetry Flash #287] Verse, and in the anthology One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande 2010).{{cite web|url=http://www.sarabandebooks.org/?page_id=3975 |title=> One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe |publisher=Sarabande Books |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/445/a-revisioning-process-rusty-morrison.aspx "Echo Mirrors (or playing telephone on paper) & A Revisioning Process", Small Press Distribution]
- {{cite web | title=entry 7 | url=http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/three/morrison1.html | work=Titanic Operas | access-date=2009-05-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927091303/http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/three/morrison1.html | archive-date=2009-09-27 | url-status=dead }}
- [http://www.coconutpoetry.org/morrison1.htm "please advise stop", Coconut Poetry]
- [http://versemag.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-3-poems-by-rusty-morrison.html "AN INTERSECTION OF LEAVES NOT LIKENESS", Verse Magazine, December 17, 2007]
- Rusty Morrison's review [http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=49&s=3052 "'the exact temperature of a hand': Melissa Kwasny and the Mystical Imagination" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (25.1)].
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080704105456/http://www.fascicle.com/issue02/poems/morrison1.htm "The eyes", fascicle, issue 2]
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/morrison08.htm| title=On My Mother's Death| journal=Conjunctions| access-date=2009-05-27| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721144000/http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/morrison08.htm| archive-date=2011-07-21| url-status=dead}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.pw.org/content/quotwindow_closedquot_rusty_morrison| title=Window (closed)| journal=Poets & Writers| year=2004}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://bostonreview.net/BR29.5/morrison.php| title=Prologue| date=October–November 2004| journal=Boston Review}}
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