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Name
  
Christopher Bakken

Role
  
Poet

Education
  
Columbia University


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Books
  
Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table, Goat Funeral: Poems, After Greece: Poems

Poet in residence christopher bakken september 16 2013


Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, and professor at Allegheny College.

Contents

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. He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos.

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. His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize.

His burger recipe won a Food & Wine contest.

Christopher Bakken: Writing under the Influence of Patrick Leigh Fermor


Works

  • "Confession" The Missouri Review 2012
  • "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti", Parnassus: Poetry in Review via Poetry Daily. 2009.
  • "Portrait Detail, with Pear", AGNI 2006

    • Books

  • Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 0520275098
  • Goat Funeral Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-931357-38-8
  • After Greece Truman State University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-931112-00-0

    • Influences/Like Voices

  • Constantine Cavafy
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • James Merrill
  • Yannis Ritsos
  • Walt Whitman
  • Phil Collins

    • Translations

  • The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, Translated Christopher Bakken, Roula Konsolaki, Truman State University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-931112-64-2

    • Anthologies

  • Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, Truman State University Press, 2004. ISBN 1-931112-37-1
  • "Ohio Elegy", Poets against the War, Editors Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0
  • "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

    • Review

    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.

    Awards

  • 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

    Christopher Bakken Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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