BJ Buckley

10 10th Lane NE

Power, MT 59468

Phone:

406-467-2986

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Author's Bio

B.J. Buckley is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts in Schools programs throughout the west for over 45 years. Her poems address the stark and dangerous beauty of the west, its animals, plants, weather, geology and geography, as well as the lives of the people who choose it as home. She is currently Writer-in- Residence at Sanford Cancer center, Sioux Falls, SD.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship; The Cumberland Poetry Review's Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize; Poets & Writers “Writers Exchange Award” in Poetry; The Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Journal of Arts and Literature; The Comstock Review Poetry Prize; residencies at The Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Dissolve by Sherwin Bitsui

There, There by Tommy Orange

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

Burn by Allison Adelle Hedge-Coke

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Favorite Books:

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Mind of the Raven and Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich, Wanderlust, A History of Walking, by Rebecca Solnit, The Anthropology of Turquois, Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit, by Ellen Meloy, every field guide to animals, plants, insects, earth, rocks, sky, stars, weather, and water ever written

Favorite Authors:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Keats, Rilke, John Clare, Richard Wilbur, W.S. Merwin, Pattianne Rogers, Sherwin Butsui, Allison Hedge-Coke, Pamela Uschuk, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Ellen Meloy, Mary Oliver, Eamonn Grennan, Thoreau, Olaus and Margaret Murie, Kent Nelson

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Cheyenne, WY

Raised in:

Cheyenne, WY

work_excerpt:

Chinook, Early February This evening prairie light caught curve of bone uncovered by the snowmelt and the wind – ribcage of antelope packed full by voles of summer grasses, sedge seed and wild onion, red clover blossom, ground cherry, bastion against a winter that might never end. Oh, when I end pray leave me out to weather and erosion’s art, my emptied architecture home for worm and beetle, first, then tight cocoons of spiders, ground-nesting birds, the small furred scurriers – to be filled again with spring’s first breath, the wild, the quick – to have so many hearts.

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Last updated: Feb 10, 2019