Chelsea Rathburn
Encyclopedia
Chelsea Rathburn is an American poet
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She was raised in Miami, Florida
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She graduated from the University of Arkansas
with an MFA.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, Hudson Review, and Pleiades.
She works as a marketing writer, and she lives in Decatur, Georgia
, with the poet James May.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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She was raised in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
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She graduated from the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
with an MFA.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, Hudson Review, and Pleiades.
She works as a marketing writer, and she lives in Decatur, Georgia
Decatur, Georgia
Decatur is a city in, and county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. With a population of 19,335 in the 2010 census, the city is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple zip codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear the Decatur name...
, with the poet James May.
Awards
- 2005 Richard Wilbur AwardRichard Wilbur AwardThe Richard Wilbur Award is named in honor of the distinguished American poet Richard Wilbur and was established at the University of Evansville under the direction of William Baer. The competition welcomes submissions of unpublished, original poetry collections, and public domain or...
, chosen by Tim SteeleTim SteeleTim Steele is a former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder.-Career:Steele started his playing career with Shrewsbury Town for four seasons before earning a lucrative move to Wolverhampton Wanderers in February 1989.During his time at the Molineux, Steele made 75 appearances and... - 2009 National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
poetry fellowship
Works
- "English Sonnet", Poetry February 2009
- The Shifting Line November 2005, University of Evansville Press ISBN 9780930982607
- Unused Lines, Aralia Press, 2003
- At summer's end, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2001
- Bodies of water, Florida State University, 1997
Criticism
- "Christian Wiman's "Hard Night" ", Courtland Review, WINTER 2006