Elise Paschen

Elise Paschen is a Native American poet of the Osage Nation.

Life
She is the daughter of Maria Tallchief, Osage prima ballerina. While an undergraduate at Harvard, she received the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal and the Joan Grey Untermyer Poetry Prize. After graduation from Harvard, she attended Oxford University where she received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in English Literature.

Paschen was the Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 to 2001. She is the co-founder of "Poetry in Motion," a nationwide program that places poetry posters in subways and buses, reaching more than 10 million people a day with poetry. She is also the co-founder of Oxford Poetry and has been a guest editor of Poetry Magazine's special issue on contemporary British poets.

Patchen is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009), Infidelities (Story Line, 1996), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts (Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1985). She is editor of "Poetry Speaks to Children" (Sourcebooks, 2006), and co-editor of Poetry in Motion (Norton, 1996), "Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast" (Norton, 2002), Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks, 2001)and "Poetry Speaks Expanded" (Sourcebooks, 2007).

A former Frances Allen Fellow of the Newberry Library, Dr. Paschen currently teaches in the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The author's website can be found at her home page.

Recognition
Elise received the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press for her book Infidelities. She received the Richard Selig Poetry Prize while at Oxford University, the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal, and the Joan Grey Untermyer Poetry Prize while an undergraduate at Harvard.

Works

 * Houses: Coasts. Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1985.
 * Infidelities. Story Line Press, 1996.
 * Bestiary. Red Hen Press, 2009.

Edited

 * Poetry in Motion. 1996.
 * Poetry Speaks. 2001.
 * Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast. 2002,
 * Poetry Speaks to Children. 2005.
 * Poetry Speaks Expanded. 2007.
 * Poetry Speaks Who I Am. 2010.

Anthologized

 * Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary native women's writing of North America (edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird), New York: W.W. Norton, 1997
 * Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (edited by Shahid Ali Agha). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
 * Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry (edited by Kevin Stein & G.E. Murray). University of Illinois Press.
 * The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine (edited by Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young). Ivan R Dee, 2002.
 * *A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in form by contemporary women (edited by Annie Finch. Story Line Press, 2007.