Allison Hedge Coke. Courtesy Coffee House Press.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (born August 4, 1958) is an American Book Award-winning American poet of mixed First Nations/European ancestry.[1]
Life[]
Hedge Coke was born in Amarillo, Texas. She grew up and came of age in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains.[2] Her early adult life was also spent in North Carolina until she was 27. [3]
She earned an A.F.A. in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an M.F.A. in poetry from Vermont College.[2]
Hedge Coke is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College, an original fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, and a University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}. She holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and is an associate professor of poetry & creative writing, in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. [4]
Writing[]
In an American Library Association starred Booklist review of Blood Run[5] ALA reviewer Patricia Monaghan described Hedge Coke as William Blake.
Of the mathematic prosody in "Blood Run" Chadwick Allen won a Don D. Walker Award for his critical paper published in "American Literature" of Duke Journals[6]
Of Dog Road Woman Amiri Baraka described her as "skilled" and "spirited".[7]
Recognition[]
http://www.unk.edu/fah/english.aspx?id=27130University of Nebraska Biographical Page for Endowed Chair
- 2 Pushcart Prize nominations in 2009 for work published in 2008.[8]
The University of Nebraska at Kearney Endowed Chair Faculty webpage[9] cites the other following state and national awards and citations:
- [10] Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study. 2008-current.
- South Dakota Arts Council Collaborative Grant in 2008-9.[11]
- Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. An Endowed Lecture. Association of Sociology in Religion. Boston, MA. 2008.[12]
- Hawthornden Castle Fellow Residency. Hawthornden Castle 2008.
- United Nations Panel Facilitator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. 2008. Invitational.
- Journal of the Year Editor in 2006-2007 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers To Topos International Journal of Poetry Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry Oregon State University. 2008.[13][14]
- Writer of the Year in Poetry in 2006-2007 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers: Blood Run from Salt Publishing. 2008.[13]
- Distinguished Paul and Clarice A. Reynolds Chair of English-Poetry & Writing- University of Nebraska at Kearney 2007-current.
- Delegate, United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, Kroc Center University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. 2006.
- United Nations Presenting Speaker. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. 2006. Invitational.[15]
- Writer of the Year in Poetry in 2005 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Off Season City Pipe Coffeehouse Press.[13]
- King Chavez Parks Teaching Award[16] Northern Michigan University. 2005.
- Black Earth Institute, Fellow. Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. 2005-2008.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Hartwick College Oneonta, New York. 2004.
- Book-of-the-Month, Native America Calling AIROS Native Radio Network, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. August 2004.
- Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence 2003. Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls Empire Arts Council
- South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship 2002.[11]
- Excellence in Teaching AwardsSioux Falls Area Community Foundation. 2002 and 2004.[17]
- Mentor of the Year in 2001 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for national work with incarcerated Native youth.[13]
- Reading Rainbow Judge. 2002.
- Pushcart Prize nominations 1999 and 2000.
- 'Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship finalist. 1999.
- South Dakota Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grants/Fellowships 1999, 2002.[11]
- Dog Road Woman Winner 1998 American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation, finalist, 1998 Paterson Prize, finalist, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award in Poetry.
- South Dakota Arts Council Artist in Residence 1998-current.[11]
- Macdowell Colony Resident Fellow in Petersborough, New Hampshire, in fall 1996.
- Abiko Quarterly Editor's Choice Award. Cid Corman, Editor. 1995.[18]
- Doris Gregory Memorial Scholarship and Creative Writing Award New Mexico Press Women 1993.[19]
- Associate Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts 1992.
- PEN America Judge[20]
- Named Fellow at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study 2008.[10]
- Hawthornden Castle Fellow. Hawthornden Castle 2008.[21]
- Named National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Writer at Hartwick College in 2004.[22]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Off-Season City Pipe: Work. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2005.
- Dog Road Woman. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2007.
- Year Of The Rat (chapbook). Grimes Press, 2000.[2]
- Streaming. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2014.
- Burn. Mad Hat Press, 2015.[2]
Play[]
- Blood Run: Free verse play. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2006.
Non-fiction[]
- Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A story of survival (memoir). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Edited[]
- It's Not Quiet Anymore: New work from the Institute of American Indian Arts (edited with Heather Ahtone). Santa Fe, NM: Creative Writing Program, Institute of American Indian Arts Press, 1993.
- Coming to Life: An anthology. Sioux Falls, SD: Sioux Falls School District, 2002.
- Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry. Corvallis, OR: Poetry Enterprises, 2006.
- Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing: Pacific rim, 2009. Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2009.
- Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011.
- Effigies II: An anthology of new indigenous writing: mainland north & south United States, 2014. Cromer, Norfolk, UK: Salt, 2012.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[23]
Audio / video[]
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke poem 2
- Visiting Writers Series (with Joseph Bathanti; VHS). Boone, SC: Appalachian State University, 2005.[23]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Biographical information from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer cite page of memoir
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Oct. 4, 2015.
- ↑ Biographical information from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer cite page of memoir
- ↑ University of Nebraska Biographical Information Link for Endowed Chair
- ↑ http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/cfapps/xml/pr_inst.html
- ↑ http://americanliterature.dukejournals.org/content/82/4/807.abstract
- ↑ http://www.coffeehousepress.org/dogroadwoman.asp
- ↑ http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/index.php?id=5913
- ↑ http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/faculty/index.php?id=27130
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 http://www.unl.edu/plains/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 http://www.artscouncil.sd.gov/aisc/lit5.aspx
- ↑ http://connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1040752718.html;jsessionid=641278835C9980FFE445D6476F57D412.ehctc1
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 http://www.wordcraftcircle.org/
- ↑ http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/totopos/index.html
- ↑ http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue2/0206p65.htm
- ↑ http://www.michigan.gov/mdcd/0,1607,7-122-1680_2735_2784---,00.html
- ↑ http://www.sfacf.org/
- ↑ http://www.themodernword.com/Joyce/joyce_links.html
- ↑ http://www.newmexicopresswomen.org/
- ↑ http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2821/prmID/1494
- ↑ http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/index.php?id=39530
- ↑ http://www.hartwick.edu/x1059.xml
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Search results = au:Allison Hedge Coke, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 4, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke profile & poem at the Academy of American Poets
- Memory from Blood Run.
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke b. 1958 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at YouTube
- "Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor", Southern Spaces, 14 October 2010
- Dakota Midday SDPR January 2008
- NPR Prosody WYEP Pittsburgh.
- AIROS August 2004 Book of the Month: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer [RealAudio]
- James Thomas Stevens & Allison Hedge Coke on UN Radio (RealAudio)
- Books
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at Amazon.con
- About
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at UNK Faculty
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at Coffee House Press
- Allison Hedge Coke PEN Member Page
- Allison Hedge Coke occasional weblog
- "Writers Giving Back: Pass the torch," by Catherine Wald, Poets and Writers (May 2004)
- Quiet Mountain Essays Interview with editor Suzanne Sunshower
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