Talvikki Ansel

Talvikki Ansel is an American poet.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah.

She teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

Writing
Blackbird: "With admirable economy, the title Jetty announces two significant features of Talvikki Ansel's second book: the liminal vantage-point of the narrators of these poems and the curious ways in which the human world intersects with the natural."

Recognition

 * Lannan Foundation resident, Marfa, Spring 2006.
 * Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, from Stanford University
 * Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.

Publications

 * My Shining Archipelago, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300070314, chosen as a winner by James Dickey for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.
 * Jetty (Zoo Press, 2003),

External references

 * Poems
 * World, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2001
 * Bird Calls, Blackbird, Spring 2002
 * Swallows, Blackbird, Spring 2002
 * Talvikki Ansel at the Poetry Foundation.
 * About
 * Where Poetry Outgrows Hobby Status, BILL SLOCUM, The New York Times, June 22, 1997

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