Brian Turner (American poet)
- Brian Turner (American poet)
Brian Turner is an American poet and the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for poetry.
From Fresno, California, Turner has seen his poems published in "Poetry Daily", "Atlanta Review", "Crab Orchard Review", "Georgia Review", "Rattle", "Virginia Quarterly Review", and "ZYZZYVA". His poems have also appeared in the "Voices in Wartime" anthology. He received the Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, "Here, Bullet", published by Alice James Books.
Turner is an MFA graduate of the University of Oregon and a U.S. Army veteran. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999 and 2000 he was with the 10th Mountain Division, deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before his military service, Turner lived in South Korea for a year.
Books
"Here, Bullet!", Alice James Books, 2005. ISBN-10: 1882295552 ISBN-13: 978-1882295555
Honors and awards
* 2007: Poets' Prize for "Here Bullet!"
* 2006: Maine Literary Award in Poetry
* 2006: Northern California Book Award in Poetry
* 2006: Sheila Margaret Motten Award from the New England Poetry Club
* 2006: PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry
* 2006: Lannan Literary Fellowship
* 2005: Beatrice Hawley Award
Print resource
*Goodyear, Dana. "Ink: War Poet" (Talk of the Town). "The New Yorker". Nov. 14, 2005. pg. 39.
External links
*Interview with Brian Turner [http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/turner_interview.html]
*New York Foundation for the Arts [http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=418&fid=6&sid=17]
*"Talk of the Town" item in "The New Yorker" [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051114ta_talk_goodyear]
*Review of Turner in "rhubarb is susan" [http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2005/11/brian-turner-observation-post-71.html]
*Review of Turner's "Here, Bullet" in "Galatea Resurrects" [http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-bullet-by-brian-turner.html]
*Listen to Brian Turner read his poems at the online poetry archive From the Fishouse [http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/brian_turner/index.shtml]
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