Jim Powell (poet)

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Name Jim Powell Role Poet		Awards MacArthur Fellowship

Education University of California, Berkeley Books The Poetry of Sappho, Sappho: A Garland

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Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Career

Powell’s poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho (1993, rev. 2007) and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets, and published essays and reviews. Thom Gunn and Robert Duncan were teachers, mentors and friends; he was a member of Duncan’s Homer Group. He was poet-in-residence at Reed College (1988–90), a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago (2005), and 2014 recipient of the Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award for Poetry.

Publications

Substrate (2009)

The Poetry Of Sappho (2007)

"To Sea Again, Dear Ship" (Common Knowledge 2007, 10 translations)

Catullan Revenants (2001 chapbook)

California Blue Indian Ghost Dance (2000 chapbook)

A Victorian Connoisseur Of Sunsets (1999 chapbook)

Sappho: A Garland (1993)

It Was Fever That Made the World (1989)

"Poetry Without Imposture" (Threepenny Review, 2008, on Thom Gunn)

"Reading The Canon" (Kean Review 2007)

"Poetry And Second Thoughts" (TriQuarterly 1993)

"In The Waiting Room" (TriQuarterly 1991)

"Basil Bunting and Mina Loy" (Chicago Review 1990)

"William Everson (Brother Antoninus") (Beat Generation Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography)

"Rope Of Twined Lifetimes: The Poetry Of John Peck" (Occident 1980)

"The Light Of Vers Libre" (Paideuma 1979, on Pound's metric)

References

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