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Taije Silverman

Taije Silverman

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 235
215-746-1164

Office Hours

spring 2019

on leave

Taije Silverman is the author of Houses Are Fields, a book of poems published in 2009 by Louisiana University Press. Her Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (translated from the Italian with Marina Della Putta Johnston) will be published by Princeton University Press in fall 2019. Recent poems and translations have been in The Best American Poetry 2017 and  The Best American Poetry 2016, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Nation, Agni, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Her poems are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, Five Points, and The Georgia Review. She is the recipient of a 2017 Pushcart Prize, the 2016 Anne Halley Prize for best poem in The Massachusetts Review, a 2011 Fulbright Award, the 2010-11 W.K. Rose Fellowship from Vassar College, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Houses Are Fields appeared in Italian translation in 2013 (Le Case Sono Campi, trans. Giorgia Pordenoni, Oedipus Edizioni). Silverman previously taught at the University of Bologna, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and at Emory University, where she was the Creative Writing Fellow. 

Selected Work Available Online

 

poems

Philtrum (from The Harvard Review)

Who The Letters Were From (audio gallery for The Southern Review)

Ways to Say Luck (audio gallery for The Southern Review)

Poem to Keep What I Love (from Poetry Magazine)

Spiritual Evaluation and Grief (from Massachusetts Review)

On Joy and Grief, with an essay on the poems by Eleanor Wilner (from Shining Rock)

The Boy with the Bolt (from The Georgia Review) 

 

interviews

Interview with OMNIA, December 2017

Interview with The Southern Review, November 2017

Interview with Brooklyn Poets, May, 2013

Interview on Take It Everything (from The Missouri Review)

  

translations

Autumn Journal by Giovanni Pascoli (from The Nation)

Night-Blooming Jasmine by Giovanni Pascoli (from Five Points) 

In the Fog, Laundresses, Hens, The Ox, Lightning, Thunder, Valentino, The Hour in Barga, Fides, by Giovanni Pascoli (from Asymptote)

 

 

Interests

Poetry and Poetics

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

"Where to Put It" in The Best American Poetry 2017 (2016)

Courses Taught

fall 2019

ENGL 120.401 The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation  

spring 2018

ENGL 262.301 Groundbreaking Poets & Traditional Forms  

fall 2017

ENGL 010.301 Introduction to Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction and Poetry  
ENGL 120.401 The Translation of Poetry / The Poetry of Translation  

spring 2017

ENGL 120.401 Translation of Poetry/Poetry of Translation  

fall 2016

ENGL 262.301 Groundbreaking Poets, Traditional Forms  

spring 2016

ENGL 120.401 The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation  
ENGL 469.640 Love and Marriage, and Poetry  

fall 2015

ENGL 229.402 Greek Myth in Contemporary Poetry  

spring 2015

ENGL 120.401 The Translation of Poetry, the Poetry of Translation  

fall 2014

ENGL 229.401 Orpheus After Ovid: Greek Myth in Contemporary Poetry  

spring 2014

ENGL 120.401 The Translation of Poetry and the Poetry of Translation  

spring 2013

ENGL 229.401 Greek Mythology in Contemporary Poetry  

fall 2012

ENGL 120.401 Translation  

summer 2012

ENGL 104.920 Contemporary American Poetry