BJ Buckley

Poet

Power, MT
Montana US
Email: 
wild4verses@yahoo.com
Website: 
wild4verses.wixsite.com/b-j-buck…

Author's Bio

B.J. Buckley is a Montana poet and writer who has worked in Arts in Schools/Communities programs throughout the west and midwest for over 45 years. She conducts residencies and workshops in schools, libraries, senior centers, homeless shelters, museums, at conferences, with writing groups and book clubs, and with special needs adults and children. Her poems address the stark and dangerous beauty of the west, its animals, plants, weather, geology and geography, as well as the lives of the people who choose it as home.

Writers Retreats: 
Ucross Residency Program
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds (North Point Press, 2005)
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Crazy Woman Creek (Mariner Books, 2004)
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Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
,
Leaning Into the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
Books:
Flyover Country (Pine Row Press, 2024)
,
Night Music (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
,
Corvidae (Lummox Press, 2014)
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Moonhorses & The Red Bull (Pronghorn Press, 2007)
,
Artifacts (Willow Bee, 1987)
Chapbooks:
In January, the Geese (Comstock Review, 2021)
,
Spaces Both Infinite and Eternal (Limberlost Press, 2013)
Journals:
About Place Journal
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Aesthetica: The Culture & Arts Magazine (U.K.)
,
Anacapa Review
,
Big Sky Journal
,
Braided Way
,
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
,
Cortland Review
,
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
,
december
,
Epiphany
,
HoboEye
,
Hole in the Head Review
,
Mezzo Cammin
,
Orchards Poetry Journal
,
Pilgrimage
,
Poeming Pigeon
,
Postcard Poems and Prose
,
Prime Number Magazine
,
Scintilla Magazine
,
Sequestrum
,
Sky Island Journal
,
Southern Humanities Review
,
Sugar House Review
,
SWWIM Every Day
,
The Briar Cliff Review
,
The Comstock Review
,
The Cumberland Poetry Review
,
The Phare
,
Up the Staircase
,
Visions International
,
Vita Poetica Journal
,
Willow Springs
Prizes won: 

Wyoming Arts Council Literature Fellowship; The Cumberland Poetry Review's Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize; Poets & Writers “Writers Exchange Award” in Poetry; The Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Journal of Arts and Literature; The Comstock Review Poetry Prize; Winning Writers Poetry Prize, Formal Poetry Category; residencies at The Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference; the Comstock Review 35th Anniversary Poetry Chapbook Prize; Finalist, Marvin Bell Poetry Prize, december magazine, 2024; Poetry Super Highway Poetry Prize, 2nd place 2020 and 2021, 1st Place 2022; Finalist, Souther Humanities Review Witness Prize; Finalist, Aesthetica Poetry Prize

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Keats, Rilke, John Clare, Richard Wilbur, W.S. Merwin, Pattianne Rogers, Sherwin Butsui, Allison Hedge-Coke, Pamela Uschuk, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Ellen Meloy, Mary Oliver, Eamonn Grennan, Thoreau, Olaus and Margaret Murie
What I'm reading now: 
Dissolve by Sherwin Bitsui, There, There by Tommy Orange, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston, Burn by Sara Henning, The Library Book by Susan Orlean

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Cheyenne, WY
Wyoming
Raised in: 
Cheyenne, WY
Wyoming
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Last update: Oct 28, 2024