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BJ Buckley [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Power, MT
Montana US
Email: 
wild4verses@yahoo.com
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
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
Born in: 
Cheyenne, WY
Wyoming
Raised in: 
Cheyenne, WY
Wyoming
Website: 
https://wild4verses.wixsite.com/b-j-buck… [2]
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; the Comstock Review 35th Anniversary Poetry Chapbook Prize; Finalist, Marvin Bell Poetry Prize, december magazine, 2024; Poetry Super Highway Poetry Prize, 2nd place 2020 and 2021, 1st Place 2022; Finalist, Souther Humanities Review Witness Prize; Finalist, Aesthetica Poetry Prize

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 Sara Henning
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Writers Retreats: 
Ucross Residency Program
Vermont Studio Center
Identifies as: 
Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/bj_buckley [2] https://wild4verses.wixsite.com/b-j-buckley