Discipline: Literature – poetry

Paula Bohince

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Greensburg, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2006
Paula Bohince is the author of three poetry collections, all from Sarabande: Swallows and Waves (2016), The Children (2012), and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (2008). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Granta, POETRY, The TLS, The Irish Times, Australian Book Review, and elsewhere. She has been the Amy Lowell poetry travelling scholar, the Dartmouth poet in residence at The Frost Place, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Clampitt House Resident, the inaugural summer poet in residence at the University of Mississippi, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Hawthornden Fellow. She has received the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Second Prize in the UK National Poetry Competition for her poem "Among Barmaids." She has taught at New York University, the New School, The Poetry School, and elsewhere.

Studios

Barnard

Paula Bohince worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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