Department of English
Taije Silverman
Senior Lecturer
(she/her/hers)
Office Hours
fall 2023Wednesdays: 3-5pm
Taije Silverman (she/her) is the author of two books of poetry: Now You Can Join the Others, which was published in 2022, and Houses Are Fields, which was published in 2009. She also translated The Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli from the Italian with Marina Della Putta Johnston; the book was shortlisted for the John Florio Prize. Silverman's poems have been in journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review, and selected for Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and the Anne Halley Prize for best poem in The Massachusetts Review. 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, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is the faculty advisor for DoubleSpeak: https://www.doublespeakmagazine.org.
Email: tsilver@sas.upenn.edu
Selected Work
poems
Grief (from Best American Poetry)
Tiresias Too (from The Gettysburg Review)
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:
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
