Rebecca Wee. Courtesy Illinois Poet Laureate.
| Rebecca Liv Wee | |
|---|---|
| Born | supermoon |
| Occupation | poet, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
BA, St. Olaf College] MFA, George Mason University |
| Genres | Poetry |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Bradley Levinson |
| Children | 2 |
Rebecca Liv Wee (born 1962) is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
Wee is a native of Minnesota.
She earned an M.F.A. in 1992 from George Mason University, where she served as editorial assistant to Carolyn Forche on her 1993 anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth century poetry of witness.[1]
Wee is a professor of English at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, where she teaches composition, literature, creative non-fiction, poetry workshops, and independent studies in poetry and creative writing.
In the fall of 2004 she was Case Writer in Residence at Western Illinois University.[2]
She was married to Michael Hudson, who died of leukemia in 1998. Her 2001 poem "How Was it Sudden Your Long Death" was dedicated to Hudson.[3]
From 2003, Wee was a single working mother, balancing a demanding teaching load with parenting 2 children. In 2015 she married cultural anthropologist Bradley Levinson, who teaches at Indiana University-Bloomington. They have 4 children between them.
Recognition[]
Her debut collection of poetry, Uncertain Grace, received the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets.[3]
In 2003, Wee was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive an Witter Bynner fellowship in poetry, supported by the Library of Congress and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.[1]
From 2003 to 2005 Wee served as Poet Laureate of the Quad Cities.[1]
Publications[]
- Uncertain Grace. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.[4] ISBN 1-55659-154-3
Audio / video[]
Rebecca Wee - 12 Weeks
- 2003 Witter Bynner Fellows: Major Jackson and Rebecca Wee reading their poems (cassette). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2003.
- Rebecca Wee reads from her poems at Central College, April 8, 2003 (VHS). Pella, IA : Central College, 2003.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rebecca Wee ushers in the River Readings, Augusta College, September 1, 2009. Web, Dec. 13, 2015.
- ↑ Rebecca Wee, Fall 2004, Western Illinois University. Web, Dec. 13, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rebecca Wee, Ploughshares. Web, Dec. 13, 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Searcg results = au:Rebecca Wee, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 13, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Rebecca Wee poem ("Uncertain Grace") at the Academy of American Poets
- "What We Are" at pō\’ĭ-trē
- Featured Poet: Rebecca Wee profile & 5 poems at Illinois Poet Laureate
- Audio / video
- Rebecca Wee at YouTube
- Interview with Rebecca Wee at the Library of Congress, 2003
- Books
- Rebecca Liv Wee at Amazon.com
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