Chanda Feldman
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Amaryllis Chanda Feldman (born 1976) is an American poet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and chair of the creative writing program at Oberlin College,[1] where she has taught since 2017.[2] Feldman was born in Tennessee in 1976.[3][4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago (1999),[5] as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell University (2003).[1][3][6] She also held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010,[7] as well as a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009,[8] and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2011.[9] Feldman has been noted in Callaloo as an example of Black people in poetry at American colleges and universities, alongside other Black poets.[10]
Her first collection, entitled Approaching the Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2018; the book contains four sections, with 22 poems total.[11] The collection received a positive review from Nan Cohen,[12] as well as a review from David M. Brunson.[13] A second collection, Glance, is in press from the same publisher as of 2024[update].[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Chanda Feldman". Oberlin College and Conservatory. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Chanda Feldman, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing". The Oberlin Review. October 12, 2018. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ a b c "Chanda Feldman". Chanda Feldman. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Feldman, Chanda, 1976-". LC Linked Data Service. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ Peart, Andrew; Schachter, Lauren (Summer 2020). "Releases". The University of Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
Entries include an essay by Tyehimba Jess, AB'91, and poetry by Chanda Feldman, AB'99, and English PhD student Korey Williams, AM'14.
- ^ "Poet honored". Cornell Chronicle. November 2010. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
Chanda Feldman, MFA '03, won a $25,000 creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- ^ "Creative Writing Program: Former Stegner Fellows". Stanford University. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Chanda Feldman". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Chanda Feldman". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ Miller, Isaac Ginsberg (2017). "POETRY IS NOT A COUNTRY CLUB: Reflecting on "The Change"". Callaloo. 40 (3): 75–97. doi:10.1353/cal.2017.0121. JSTOR 26776378.
For example, we might note the unprecedented number of Black poets holding posts at US colleges and universities, including ... Chanda Feldman at Oberlin College, ...
- ^ Feldman, Chanda (2018). Approaching the Fields: Poems. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6829-5. OCLC 1132665748.
- ^ Cohen, Nan (2020-07-11). "Approaching the Fields by Chanda Feldman, Reviewed by Nan Cohen". RHINO. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ "Capsule Reviews". David Brunson. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
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