Tim Seibles on Writer's Circuit in February

Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1955. He is the author of several books of poems including Hurdy-Gurdy; Hammerlock; and Buffalo Head Solos. His latest collection, Fast Animal, has just been released by Etruscan Press. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts fellow and has been a writing fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts. Seibles also received an Open Voice Award from the 63rd Street Y in New York City. His work has been featured in anthologies such as Manthology; Black Nature; Seriously Funny; The Autumn House Anthology of American Poetry; So Much Things to Say and Best American Poetry 2010. He has been a workshop leader for the Cave Canem Writers Retreat and for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. Tim is visiting faculty for the University of Southern Maine's low-residential Stonecoast MFA Program. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia where, as an associate professor, he teaches in Old Dominion University's English Department and MFA in writing program.

Seibles’ streetwise, syncopated poems zero in on such wide-ranging subjects as basketball, sex, dogs, race, and the inner life of cartoon characters. He has been honored with an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.  

“This is not a poetry of a highfalutin violin nor the somber cello,” wrote Sandra Cisneros of Siebels’ work, “but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home.”

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