Chase Twichell has published six books
of poems: Dog Language (Copper Canyon, 2005), The Snow Watcher
(Ontario Review Press, 1998, and Bloodaxe, U.K., 1999),The Ghost
of Eden (Ontario Review Press, 1995, and Faber & Faber, U.K.,
1995), Perdido (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991, and Faber &
Faber, U.K., 1992), The Odds (University of Pittsburgh Press,
1986), and Northern Spy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981).
She's also the co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing
Exercises From Poets Who Teach (HarperCollins, 1992). The Lover of
God, translations (with Tony K. Stewart) of Tagore, was published
by Copper Canyon Press (2004). Twichell has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 1993), the Artists
Foundation (Boston), the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990), and a
Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
(1994). In 1997 she won the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the
Poetry Society of America for The Snow Watcher. She was awarded a
Smart Family Foundation Award in 2004 for poems published in the
Yale Review. She’s taught at Warren Wilson College, The
University of Alabama, Goddard College, Hampshire College, and
Princeton University (1990—1999). In 1999 she quit teaching to
start Ausable Press, which publishes contemporary poetry.
THE SOUP
I went to see
Dad at the Home.
The soup was turkey corn chowder
with wild rice. Not bad, considering
we ate it in the waiting room
of the house of death
Chase Twichell has published six books
of poems: Dog Language (Copper Canyon, 2005), The Snow Watcher
(Ontario Review Press, 1998, and Bloodaxe, U.K., 1999),The Ghost
of Eden (Ontario Review Press, 1995, and Faber & Faber, U.K.,
1995), Perdido (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991, and Faber &
Faber, U.K., 1992), The Odds (University of Pittsburgh Press,
1986), and Northern Spy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981).
She's also the co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing
Exercises From Poets Who Teach (HarperCollins, 1992). The Lover of
God, translations (with Tony K. Stewart) of Tagore, was published
by Copper Canyon Press (2004). Twichell has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 1993), the Artists
Foundation (Boston), the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990), and a
Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
(1994). In 1997 she won the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the
Poetry Society of America for The Snow Watcher. She was awarded a
Smart Family Foundation Award in 2004 for poems published in the
Yale Review. She’s taught at Warren Wilson College, The
University of Alabama, Goddard College, Hampshire College, and
Princeton University (1990—1999). In 1999 she quit teaching to
start Ausable Press, which publishes contemporary poetry.