Tyehimba Jess in 2018. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Tyehimba Jess (born 1965) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American poet.
Life[]
Jess was born in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.F.A. from New York University.[1]
He teaches poetry and fiction at the City University of New York College of Staten Island, and is the faculty adviser for Caesura, the university's literary arts magazine.
His work has appeared in Soul Fires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex, and Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry.
Writing[]
Ploughshares: "Tyehimba Jess ... coaxes an astonishingly rich world from the wood and steel scraps of the life he finds before him. He chronicles the story of Leadbelly — the killer, the lover, the victim, the son, the greatest bluesman of his time — and he has the chops to animate this complex man."[2]
Recognition[]
Jess was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Olio.[3]
Awards[]
- 2000 Duncan YMCA Writer's Voice Fellow
- Illinois Arts Council Artist Roster
- 2000 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship
- 2001 Chicago Sun Times Poetry Award.
- 2001 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Awards
- 2001-2 Ragdale Fellow
- 2004 National Poetry Series
- 2004 NEA grant [4]
- 2006 Whiting Writers' Award [5]
- 2007 Lannan residency [6]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Leadbelly. Verse Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9746353-3-0.
Non-fiction[]
- African American Pride: Celebrating Our Achievements, Contributions, and Enduring Legacy. Citadel Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8065-2498-6.
Anthologized[]
Tyehimba Jess reads "Another Man Done" The Migration Series Poetry Suite
- Soulfires: Young Black Men in Love and Violence (1996)
- Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (2000)
- Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (2004)
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Tyehimba Jess, Poetry Foundation, Web, Oct. 14, 2012.
- ↑ David Daniel (Spring 2006). "leadbelly, poems by Tyehimba Jess (Verse)". Ploughshares. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8409. Template:Dead link
- ↑ 2017 Pulitzer Prizes, the Pulitzer Prizes. Web, Sep. 19, 2018.
- ↑ http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=05_08
- ↑ http://news.illinois.edu/NEWS/06/1102poetprize.html
- ↑ http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/tyehimba-jess/
External links[]
- Poems
- "When I Speak of Blues Be Clear", Cave Canem
- "harris county chain gang"; "home again"; "martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935", Perihelion.
- Poems by Tyehimba Jess at Nashville Review
- Tyehimba Jess at the Poetry Foundation
- 8 poems
- Audio / video
- Tyehimba Jess at From the Fishouse
- Tyehimba Jess at YouTube
- Books
- Tyehimba Jess at Amazon.com
- About
- "Tyehimba Jess", introduction from The Book of Voices
- "NINE LIVES OF CHICAGO POETRY: TYEHIMBA JESS" (review of Leadbelly) at the Legendary Chicago Poetry Review
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