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Jeff Simpson, MFA student, Creative Writing

BA Cameron University


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Creative Writing, Poetry
  • Contemporary American Poetry
  • Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Literary Theory

Publications

  • “Color Depicting the Inherent Value of Things.” Forthcoming in H_NGM_N.
  • “Stag Night.” Forthcoming in H_NGM_N.
  • “Phantom Pains.” Forthcoming in H_NGM_N.
  • “Miami, OK.” Nimrod 52.1 (2008).
  • “Shrapnel.” Nimrod 52.1 (2008).
  • “Thyroidectomy.” Gulf Stream 28 (2008).
  • “Phosphorus.” Big Muddy 7.1 (2007).
  • “Hymn.” Nimrod 49.2 (2006).
  • “Solo.” Poet Lore 101 (2006).
  • “Upon Reading Elvin Jones has Died of Heart Failure in Englewood, New Jersey.”
    Pebble Lake Review 3.2 (2006).
  • “Morning Prayer.” Pebble Lake Review 3.2 (2006)
  • “October.” Pebble Lake Review 3.1 (2005)
  • “Hollow Light.” Oklahoma Today Magazine 55.1 (2005).

Honors and Offices

  • Finalist for the 2008 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry.
  • First Place, Academy of American Poets Prize, OSU, 2006.
  • President of the Creative Writers Association, 2006-07.
  • Editorial Assistant, Cimarron Review, 2005-Present.

Conference Presentations

  • Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, “Phantom Pains & Other Poems,” 2008

Current Research/Articles in Progress

  • Book-length collection of poems.

Why OSU?

 

I wanted to work closely with poets Ai and Lisa Lewis.


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