Paulann Petersen

Paulann Petersen (born 1942) an American poet from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, she was Oregon's sixth poet laureate.

Paulann Petersen
Born
Paulann Whitman

1942
Portland, Oregon
OccupationPoet

Biography

Petersen was born in 1942 in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Franklin High School in Southeast Portland.[1] Following high school she went to Pomona College in Claremont, California, before returning to Oregon.[2] Petersen settled in Klamath Falls in Southern Oregon with her family, remaining for 31 years.[1] In 1991, she returned to Portland where she taught high school English at schools such as West Linn High School.[1]

Literary career

In 1975, she had her first published piece, a poem in The Oregonian.[2] Petersen was a Stegner Fellow in 1986–1987.[3] She twice has won Carloyn Kizer Poetry Awards, and also was the recipient of the Stewart Holbrook Award, given for contributions to Oregon literature.[1] In 2002, The Wild Awake—her first full-length collection of poems—was published by Confluence Press. Two years later, she published Blood-Silk, a collection of poems about Turkey. A Bride of Narrow Escape was published in 2006, and Kindle was published in 2008.[4] Petersen was appointed as Oregon's Poet Laureate in 2010, the sixth in state history, replacing Lawson Inada.[1][2] The Voluptuary was published in 2010, and Understory was published in 2013. She was given a second term as poet laureate in 2012,[5] with her term then ending in April 2014.[6]

See also

References
  1. Baker, Jeff (April 26, 2010). "Paulann Petersen named Oregon's sixth poet laureate". The Oregonian. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  2. "Biography of Paulann Petersen". Oregon Poet Laureate. Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
  3. "Complete List of Stegner Fellows". Stanford University. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  4. "Paulann Petersen". City of Milwaukie. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  5. Cole, Michelle (April 12, 2012). "Paulann Petersen named to second term as Oregon's poet laureate". The Oregonian. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  6. Baker, Jeff (February 13, 2014). "Oregon is looking for a new Poet Laureate". The Oregonian. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
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