Department of English
Taije Silverman
Senior Lecturer
(she/her/hers)
Office Hours
spring 2025Tuesdays 1-3
photo credit: Sarah Yoon Taije Silverman (she/her) is the author of two books of poetry: Now You Can Join the Others (2022), and Houses Are Fields (2009), as well as The Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (2019) translated from the Italian with Marina Della Putta Johnston and shortlisted for the John Florio Prize. Silverman's poems and translations have been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Nation, and elsewhere; they have been included in Best American Poetry and received the Pushcart Prize. Silverman is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, the Vassar College W.K. Rose Fellowship, and residencies from Yaddo and MacDowell.
Email: tsilver@sas.upenn.edu
Selected Work
poems
Grief (from Best American Poetry)
Armageddon (from the Academy of American Poets)
Poem to Keep What I Love (from Poetry)
The Night I Slept with My High School English Teacher (from Poetry Northwest)
The Poem About Chuck E Cheese a Friend Posted on Facebook (from Gettysburg Review)
Dome of the Rock, Rock of the Tunnel (from Kenyon Review)
translations
The Meteor, essay and translation of a poem by Giovanni Pascoli (from Poetry Daily)
The Sirens by Giovanni Pascoli (from Poetry)
Autumn Journal by Giovanni Pascoli (from The Nation)
Night-Blooming Jasmine by Giovanni Pascoli (from Five Points)
interviews, features, and reviews:
poem of the week, The Guardian, 2025
on translation, Princeton University Press, 2023
review in Publishers Weekly, 2022
interview with Ethan Wang, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, 2022
review in LA Review of Books, 2021
feature on "The Slowdown" with Tracy K. Smith, 2020
Interview with The Southern Review, 2017
Interview with Brooklyn Poets, 2013
Interview on Take It Everything (from The Missouri Review), 2011
selected audio:
"Grief," original composition on piano by Dr. Denise Brown of Lincoln University, 2021
"But I Didn't Look at Her," Southern Review, 2020
"Grief" in "A Woman's Life and Love" a feminist song cycle by composer Sara Carina Graef, premiered at Oakland University by mezzo-soprano Alta Marie Boover on October 5, 2019: Introduction at 24 and 32 minutes
"Philtrum," poesia-duetto by Andrew Hsu, premiered at the Curtis Institute of Music on December 4, 2016
