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Jennifer Boyden (born 1969) is an American poet and teacher. ==Life== Jennifer Boyden grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota. She attended Creighton University (B.A., Creative Writing), and Eastern Washington University (M.F.A., Creative Writing, With Distinction). Boyden's first book, ''The Mouths of Grazing Things'', was selected by Robert Pinsky to received the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 2010 (University of Wisconsin Press). Her poetry is primarily lyrical and imagistic, and her themes often relate to environmental issues. In 1999, she was awarded the PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing residency and lived in an isolated, remote wilderness region near the Rogue River in southern Oregon. Her work was influenced by this wilderness immersion. A later environmental project was funded by a grant from Washington State Artist Trust Gap Grants. For this project, Boyden walked hundreds of miles and wrote essays that arose from the walks. Boyden also collaborates with visual artists. Projects that feature her text include work with Buster Simpson and her husband, visual artist Ian Boyden, as well as creative nonfiction responding to work by artists such as photographer Peter deLory. She currently lives in Suzhou, China where she teaches at Soochow University. She has also taught at Walla Walla Community College and at Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington). Eastern Washington University (Spokane, Washington), The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, Oregon). Her main teaching areas are creative writing, poetry, environmental literature, and experimental and cross-genre forms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer Boyden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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