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Adrian Blevins reads "Brimstone" at Poetry in the Boro, September 2018.
Poetry Monday, 6/6/11 - Adrian Blevins
Adrian Blevins (born 1964 Abingdon, Virginia ) is an American poet. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).
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- Adrian Blevins reads Brimstone at Poetry in the Boro September 2018
- Poetry Monday 6611 Adrian Blevins
- Life
- Awards
- Published works
- Reviews
- References
Life
She graduated with a BA from Virginia Intermont College, a MA in Fiction from Hollins University, and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2002.
She taught at Roanoke College, Hollins University, and teaches at Colby College and lives in Waterville, Maine.
Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares. She has published personal essays in The Utne Reader, Salon, and the now-defunct Internet magazine, Conversely.
Awards
Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections
Chapbooks
Essays
Reviews
Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, “when everything was always so awash” that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins’s work.