BJ Buckley

Poet

Power, MT

Montana US

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Author's Bio

B.J. Buckley is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts in Schools/Communities programs throughout the west and midwest for over 45 years. She conducts residencies and workshops in schools, libraries, senior centers, homeless shelters, museums, at conferences, with writing groups and book clubs, and with special needs adults and children. 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.

Writers Retreats:

Ucross Residency Program

Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds (North Point Press, 2005)

Crazy Woman Creek (Mariner Books, 2004)

Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

Leaning Into the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)

Books:

Corvidae (Lummox Press, 2014)

Moonhorses & The Red Bull (Pronghorn Press, 2007)

Artifacts (Willow Bee, 1987)

Chapbook:

Spaces Both Infinite and Eternal (Limberlost Press, 2013)

Journals:

About Place Journal

Big Sky Journal

Cortland Review

Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts

december

Epiphany

HoboEye

Mezzo Cammin

Pilgrimage

Postcard Poems and Prose

Scintilla Magazine

Sequestrum

Sky Island Journal

The Comstock Review

The Cumberland Poetry Review

Visions International

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; Winning Writers Poetry Prize, Formal Poetry Category; residencies at The Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.

Personal Favorites

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

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

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Cheyenne, WY

Wyoming

Raised in:

Cheyenne, WY

Wyoming

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Last update: Jun 18, 2020