Department of English
Taije Silverman
(she/her/hers)
Office Hours
fall 2022Tuesdays/Thursdays: 1:30-2:30 pm, and by appointment
Taije Silverman (she/her) is the author of two books of poetry: Now You Can Join the Others, which will be published in November 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; this book was shortlisted for the John Florio Prize. Silverman's poems have been in journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and twice selected for Best American Poetry. She has been awarded the Puschcart Prize, the Anne Halley Prize for best poem in The Massachusetts Review, and residencies from Yaddo and MacDowell. Silverman is the recipient of a 2011 Fulbright, the Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, and the Vassar College W.K. Rose Fellowship. She is the faculty advisor for DoubleSpeak: https://www.doublespeakmagazine.org.
Email: tsilver@sas.upenn.edu
Selected Work
poems
Tiresias Too (from The Gettysburg Review)
Poem to Keep What I Love (from Poetry)
Our Happy Life (from The Awl)
Where to Put It (from Georgia Review)
The Night I Slept with My High School English Teacher (from Poetry Northwest)
The Next to Last to First Kiss (from Alaska Quarterly Review)
On Joy and Grief, with an essay on the poems by Eleanor Wilner (from Shining Rock)
translations
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:
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 Marilena Renda for BOLOGNA IN LETTERE, 2020
Interview with OMNIA, 2017
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
"Dome of the Rock, Rock of the Tunnel," Kenyon Review, 2020
"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
