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Terry Blackhawk
November 12 , 2004
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Founder
and director of Detroit's acclaimed InsideOut Literary Arts
Project, Terry Blackhawk, Ph.D., is the author of Body & Field,
a collection of poetry, and a chapbook, Trio: Voices from
the Myths. Her second full-length poetry collection, Escape
Artist,
received the 2002 John Ciardi Prize from BkMk Press. Her poems
have appeared in Marlboro Review, Poet Lore, Michigan
Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review and Yankee among others. She
received the 1990 Foley Poetry Award, nominations for two Pushcart
Poetry Prizes, and was a finalist for the Marlboro Prize in
1997 and 1999. Blackhawk conducts workshops on the connections
between writing and art at the Detroit Institute of Arts and
teaches graduate level writing classes for language arts teachers
through Oakland University. She is recipient a National Endowment
for the Humanities Teacher-Scholar Award, a Michigan Governors'
Award in Arts Education, a United Black Artists Pioneering
Teacher in the Arts Award, and a Michigan Council for the Arts
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"Terry Blackhawk’s
poems, crisp as the first apples of autumn, are tart, knowing,
and full of the growth of summer. Poems like these can sustain
you." -Molly Peacock, 2002 Judge, the John Ciardi Prize
for Poetry
To view Special Collections' holdings of Terry Blackhawk's
work, please click here.
To hear Blackhawk read from her own work, please visit the
Vincent Voice Library, here.
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