{"id":4110,"date":"2020-03-30T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2020-12-07T19:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T03:17:25","slug":"b-j-buckley-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/b-j-buckley-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"B.J. Buckley Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lummox Press welcomes poet and educator B.J. Buckley to the Angela Consolo Mankiewicz Poetry Contest. As judge she brings a wealth of experience with her, so you better send her your best!<\/h4>\n

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B.J. Buckley<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts-in-Schools programs throughout the west for over 40 years. Her prizes and awards include a Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship; The Cumberland Poetry Review’s Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize; the New York-based Poets & Writers \u201cWriters Exchange Award\u201d in Poetry; the Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; and the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Journal of Arts and Literature; the Winning Writers award for formal poetry, and the Comstock Review Poetry Prize. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Colrain Manuscript Conference.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Her poems have appeared widely in both print and on-line journals including Pilgrimage, Cut Throat: A Journal of the Arts, About Place Journal, MezzoCammin, The Big Sky Journal, Green Mountains Review, Visions International, Sequestrum, december,The Cortland Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, Ellipsis, Sky Island Journal, and Epiphany. Her work is included in many anthologies, including <\/span>Leaning Into the Wind<\/b>, <\/span>Woven on the Wind<\/b>, and <\/span>Crazy Woman Creek<\/b> (Houghton Mifflin); <\/span>Wyoming Fencelines<\/b>, a collection of poems about fences and other boundaries by Wyoming authors; and <\/span>Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds<\/b> (Henry Holt). Her books include <\/span>Artifacts<\/b>; <\/span>Moon Horses and the Red Bull,<\/b> ProngHorn Press, with co-author Dawn Senior-Trask; a letterpress chapbook, <\/span>Spaces Both Infinite and Eternal<\/b>, 2013, Limberlost Press; and <\/span>Corvidae<\/b>, Lummox Press 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s an example of her craft as a poet:<\/h3>\n

Eating Seven Pips of a Pomegranate
\n<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in Defiance of Winter<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

The fruits of February<\/h3>\n

are tight and sweet and small,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

the rich dark red of blood<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

that\u2019s settled into the limbs<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

and begun to cool. Two days ago<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

all rodent auguries were ambivalent,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

contradictory under partly cloudy<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

heavens soft with thaw \u2013 men<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

in top hats far too squeamish<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

for consulting entrails, for cutting<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

anything open. Persephone<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

was wiser than her years<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

to take that gut-slashed womb<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

into her hands, suck the sweet juice<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

sluicing through her fingers,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

tease out pips to feed the wolf<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

in her belly lest it devour her<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

will. Seven: snowdrift, sleet-knife,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

ice-lock, gale, blizzard, ravens,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

burial. Seven pips: and so, I,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

against the spell of turncoat<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

January with its melts and drips.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Last night together cold and darkness<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

fell and fell and fell, the snow ground glass<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

against all flesh, and wind a beast<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

whose claws, like ghosts, could reach<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

through walls, fierce bird who broke<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

each branch it rested on. So I,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

so nourished, loosed my hair,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

went out to marry:<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

sparrows dropped frozen<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

from the lilac hedge. Old cottonwoods,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

their shattered bones. Blood<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

where an owl fed.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

That flame of ice, my heart.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

That flame, the moon.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0for Jane Wohl<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lummox Press welcomes poet and educator B.J. Buckley to the Angela Consolo Mankiewicz Poetry Contest. As judge she brings a wealth of experience with her, so you better send her your best! B.J. Buckley\u00a0is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts-in-Schools programs throughout the west for over 40 years. Her prizes and awards include a Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship; The Cumberland Poetry Review’s Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize; the New York-based Poets & Writers \u201cWriters Exchange Award\u201d in Poetry; the Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; and the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Journal of Arts and Literature; the Winning Writers award for formal poetry, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[174,153,115,165,270,21,14,61],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-americana","tag-international-poetry","tag-lummox-press","tag-new-mexico","tag-poetry-contest","tag-regional-usa-poetry","tag-senior-poetry","tag-women-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}