Name Allison Coke Role Poet | Children Travis Hedge Coke Awards American Book Awards | |
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Occupation Poet, Writer, Artist, Performer, Filmmaker, Educator, Organizer Genre Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Script, Lyric Notable works Dog Road Woman'Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer'Off-Season City Pipe Blood Run Streaming Notable awards American Book Award;
King*Chavez*Parks Award (numerous others) Books Blood Run, Rock - ghost - willow - de, Dog road woman, Off‑season city pipe, Streaming | ||
America, I Sing You Back by UCR Distinguished Prof. Allison Hedge Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies.
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- America I Sing You Back by UCR Distinguished Prof Allison Hedge Coke
- Career
- Poetry
- Discography
- Books edited or co edited
- Awards
- References
Career
Hedge Coke held a National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College (2004), is an original and emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Soul Mountain Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, a Lannan Foundation residency fellow, a current University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}, served as the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and as an Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Kearney (2007–2012) and University of Nebraska low-residency MFA program (2007-current), Visiting Artist of the University of Central Oklahoma (2012–2014), and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2014). She has also served as a Visiting Writer for the University of California Riverside (2014) and University of California Riverside–Palm Desert (2008), and taught for Northern Michigan University, the University of Arkansas, Lenore-Rhyne, Kilian College, and the University of Sioux Falls. Hedge Coke is a Founding Faculty of the full residency Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing and Publishing (2015–), teaches for [Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA (2016–), and is visiting faculty for the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She has directed the annual Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat, in conjunction with her studies in migration patterning influence on flyway communities, since 2007. Hedge Coke is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Poetry
Hedge Coke's work Blood Run a collection of sixty-six poems, was inspired by the traditions of the Native American Mound Builders and their earthworks. The poems show a mathematical patterning based on the numbers four, three and seven and on the sequence of the first 24 primes.
Discography
Books edited or co-edited
Edited Books