Brenda Hillman  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

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Awards:

• Chancellors' Fellowship - Academy of American Poets (October 2012)
  Award for outstanding poetic achievement
• Los Angeles Times Book Award - (2010)
  for Practical Water
• Five Bay Area Treasures - San Francisco Center For the Book (November 21, 2009)
  award - one of five artists of the book

Honor:

• "Far From Perfect" - Isadora Duncan Awards (2010)
  nomination with Hope Mohr for dance collaboration

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• On Lyric and the Archive". Hillman, Brenda (primary presenter)
  Associated Writing Programs
  panel presentation
  (February 05, 2011)

Interview

• Interview on Bookworm KCRW. Hillman, Brenda (interview or commentator)
  interview with Michael Silverblatt
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poetry reading and talk

• Hillman, Brenda (talk, speech or lecture)
  Squaw Valley Community of Writers
  Six Kinds of "I" in Poetry
  (July 2011)
• reading at Tulane University. Hillman, Brenda (primary presenter)
  (November 2010)
• poetry reading with Robert Hass at University of Mississippi. Hillman, Brenda (reading)
  (October 2010)
• poetry reading at Fall for the Book. Hillman, Brenda (talk, speech or lecture, reading)
  conference at George Mason University
  (September 2010)

Publications:

• Hillman, Brenda. October 31, 2011. "Till It Finishes What It Does, The New Yorker
• Etwebi, Ashur. 2011. Poems From Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi, eds. and Hillman, Brenda L and Haidar, Diallah, Parlor Press
• Hillman, Brenda. 2011. "Patience Swoons in the Sword Fern", Tears in the Fence, issue #53, ed. Caddy, David
• Hillman, Brenda. 2011. "Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments", Locuspoint San Francisco Bay Area , vol. Volume 3, issue Issue 3, ed. Calderwood, Brent
• Choi, Jeongrye. 2011. Instances, Instances, eds. and Hillman, Brenda and DeFremery, Wayne, Parlor Press
• Hillman, Brenda. 2010. three poems, Chicago Review, vol. 55:3/4, issue Autumn 2010, pg.pp 116+, University of Chicago
• Hillman, Brenda. 2010. "The Way We Learn to Look", Gulf Coast, vol. 23, issue 1, University of Houston
• Hillman, Brenda. 2009. Practical Water, Wesleyan University Press
• Hillman, Brenda. 2009. "String Theory Sutra" and other poems, American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, pg.194, eds. and St. John, David and Swensen, Cole, Norton
• Hillman, Brenda. 2009. Twelve Writings Toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness & California, The Best of Fence, vol. I, ed. Wolff, Rebecca, Fence Books
• Hillman, Brenda. Pieces of Air in the Epic. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
• Hillman, Brenda. Cascadia. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Performances:

demonstration

• Writers Against War & Occupation. (February 03, 2011)
  peace vigil at the White House