Jeff Tigchelaar

Author's Bio

Jeff Tigchelaar stays home with the kids. His poems appear or forthcome in The Southeast Review, Best New Poets 2011, Court Green, North American Review, Grist, Rhino, Tar River Poetry, Coal City Review, Blue Island Review, Flyway, Juked, Controlled Burn, Aethlon, eL Paper, and Verse Daily. His poetry received a Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award and an Individual Excellence grant from the Ohio Arts Council. His work has been reviewed on cellpoems.org.

Publications and Prizes

Journals:

Harpur Palate, Hunger Mountain, Margie, Natural Bridge, Redactions

Prizes:

Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2008; Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in Poetry, 2010 (Kansas)

Jeff Tigchelaar Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Sam's Book by David Ray, Things Come On {an amneoir} by Joseph Harrington, Fire Mobile: The Pregnancy Sonnets by Matt Porubsky, I lost it all the night the day the circus came to town by Mark Hennessy, The Pigman & Me by Paul Zindel

Favorite Books:

The Center of Everything (Laura Moriarty); The Boys (John Terpstra); No One Belongs Here More than You (Miranda July); Wind of the Journey (Irina Ratushinskaya; trans. Lydia Razran Stone); The Gay Science (F. Nietzsche); The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks trans.); Catch 22 (Heller); The Moviegoer (Walker Percy); God Laughs and Plays (David James Duncan); A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole); Return to the City of White Donkeys (James Tate); Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)

Favorite Authors:

John Terpstra, Dan Gerber, Mark Hennessy, Mark Halliday, William Heyen, Adrienne Rich, Alice Friman, Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Tao Lin, Jack Ridl, Greg Rappleye, Denise Low, Sherman Alexie, Leonard Cohen, Zakes Mda, Rob Bell, Art Gish

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Listing last updated: April 12, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Dutch American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Grand Rapids, MI

Raised in:

Grand Rapids, MI

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