Allison Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Born August 4, 1958
Amarillo, Texas
Occupation Poet, Writer, Artist, Performer, Filmmaker, Educator, Organizer
Genre Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Script, Lyric
Notable works Dog Road Woman'Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer'Off-Season City Pipe Blood Run Streaming
Notable awards American Book Award;
King*Chavez*Parks Award (numerous others)
Website
allisonhedgecoke.com rdkla.com

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, poet-writer, lives in Oklahoma and was primarily raised in North Carolina with some time on the Great Plains & Canada. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize & Diane DeCora Award since then, she has written five more award-winning books and edited eight unique anthologies. Noted (World Literature Today, American Literature...) as an epic poet, her long form and epic poems include: "Burn," "Streaming," "Before Next Dawning," "When the Animals Leave This Place," "Resonance in Motion," "When I was a Girl Woman," "Radio Wave Mama," "The Change," and "The Year of the Rat." Additionally, the orchestration of her authored books, including Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, and Streaming and edited volumes, including: Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, are also arranged to be read to experience a book-length poem. Additionally, The Year of the Rat is a book-length poem.

Background

Hedge Coke was born in Texas and grew up and came of age in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. Her early adult life was also spent in North Carolina until she was 27. Her mother suffered from schizophrenia and spent many years in asylums. From the ages of 13-46, her work includes factory packer, waitressing, clerk, cashier, field worker, sharecropper (tobacco, sweet potatoes), dog trainer, horse trainer, wrangler, construction (heavy equipment, frame carpentry, wrecking crew), computer coding, night auditing, designing trucks by spec, car sales, commercial fisher, maid, songwriter, sessions musician, performer, artist, second-chance high school instructor, gang intervention, stage tech, director, collections management, docent, interpreter, communications director, k-12, juvenile justice, labor, domestic abuse, homeless, mental health and after school program instructor. Her extended family's heritage includes: Metis, Huron, French Canadian, Luso, Cherokee, Irish, Scot, English... Her father was born in the US and her mother in Canada. [1][2]

Career

Hedge Coke held a National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College (2004), is an original and emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Soul Mountain Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, a Lannan Foundation residency fellow, a current University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}, served as the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and as an Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Kearney (2007–2012) and University of Nebraska low-residency MFA program (2007-current), Visiting Artist of the University of Central Oklahoma (2012–2014), and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2014). [3][4] She has also served as a Visiting Writer for the University of California Riverside (2014) and University of California Riverside–Palm Desert (2008), and taught for Northern Michigan University, the University of Arkansas, Lenore-Rhyne, Kilian College, and the University of Sioux Falls. Hedge Coke is a Founding Faculty of the full residency Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing and Publishing (2015–), teaches for Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA (2016–), and is visiting faculty for the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She has directed the annual Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat, in conjunction with her studies in migration patterning influence on flyway communities, since 2007.

Hedge Coke taught second chance high school in gang intervention for the City of San Buena Ventura, incarcerated youth facilities in North Carolina, California, South Dakota, Montana, and New Mexico, served for several outreach urban, rural and reservation programs including numerous years as resident writer for CPITS (area coordinator), SDAC, and Arts Corr/South Dakotans for the Arts Juvenile Facilities. In both California and South Dakota she served as a resident writer for state mental hospitals (including criminally insane wards, Alzheimers and Dementia and acute care patients, and suicide prevention), for domestic violence shelters, Cancer clinics, and in homeless shelters. She has continued her work in this area with Writers Garret in Dallas, Texas and in teaching conferences.

Hedge Coke worked with migrant camp children and respective schools in California and taught K-12 schools in California and South Dakota including the Sioux Falls School District. with joint funding from the district, the Office of Indian Education and the state arts council. She taught spatial art and lyric writing for SPACE (Special Performing Arts and Cultural Events) in Raleigh and Cary NC, performance in Southern California (Director Children's Repertory Theater in Oxnard, Ca. and AIRPA).

Discography

Bibliography

Winner: Wordcrafter of the Year Award Winner: 2015 IPPY Award – Bronze Medal (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for superior cover art. Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking book.Finalst: 2015 2015 Eric Hoffer Award. Longlist: 2015 PEN/Open Book Award 2014 Split This Rock Notable Book 2014 Teaching for Change Notable Book .[6]

Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award, New York Book Festival Mention [Poetry] Native America Calling Book of the Month.[13]

AIROS Book-of-the-Month, Booklist ALA Starred.[15][16]

Books edited or co-edited

Edited Books

Magazines, Journals, and Folios Edited

Writing available online

Critical reception

In an American Library Association starred Booklist review of Blood Run[28] ALA reviewer Patricia Monaghan described Hedge Coke as William Blake

Of the mathematic prosody in "Blood Run" Chadwick Allen [29] won a Don D. Walker Award for his paper published in "American Literature" of Duke Journals.[30] Of Dog Road Woman Amiri Baraka described her as "skilled" and "spirited".[18][31]

Mira Bartok's review of Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer in Fourth Genre[32][33]

Reviews highlighted on University of Nebraska Press page[34] include, Billings Gazette Reviewer's (Chris Rubich) statement as "Razor-sharp."

Nebraska Writers Page, Gathers review listings at Creighton University.[35]

South Dakota Center for the Books Festival Featured Author[36]

Noted on Hate Crimes[37]

Interviews or autobiographical essays

Awards

External links

Notes

  1. Biographical information from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer cite page of memoir
  2. "Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor | Southern Spaces". southernspaces.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  3. University of Nebraska Biographical Information Link for Endowed Chair
  4. "Allison Hedge Coke". english.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  5. "Rd Klā & Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | Streaming | CD Baby Music Store". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  6. "Streaming | Coffee House Press". coffeehousepress.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  7. "Effigies II, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Laura Da’, Ungelbah Davila et al., Poetry by individual poets, 9781844718955 | buy from Salt". saltpublishing.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  8. "Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer - University of Nebraska Press". nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  9. 1 2 "Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas". uapress.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  10. "Effigies, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, dg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford & Brandy Nalani McDougall, Poetry anthologies (various poets), 9781844714070 | buy from Salt". saltpublishing.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  11. 1 2 http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/totopos/description.html
  12. "Blood Run, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Poetry by individual poets, 1844712664 | buy from Salt". saltpublishing.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  13. http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/off-season-city-pipe-2/
  14. 1 2 "Welcome to California Poets In the Schools". cpits.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  15. "Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer - University of Nebraska Press". nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  16. "Native America Calling". nativeamericacalling.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  17. 1 2 "Coming to Life: allison Adelle Hedge Coke: 9780972237000: Amazon.com: Books". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  18. 1 2 http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/dog-road-woman-2/
  19. "NCW--Selected Publications of". mockingbird.creighton.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  20. 1 2 3 http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/14794/its-not-quiet-anymore-new-work-from-the-institute-of-american-indian-arts.aspx
  21. "http://www.saltpublishing.com/writers/profile.php?recordID=208324"
  22. "http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/i-dont-stand-alone-poets-orlando-white-and-sherwin-bitsui-on-the-importance-of-mentors/">
  23. http://www.plattevalleyreview.org/Webpages/2011%20start/PVR%20Main%20Web%20Pages/
  24. https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/event/madhat-and-fulcrum-present-evening-native-poetry
  25. http://plumepoetry.com/tag/allison-adelle-hedge-coke/
  26. http://aalr.binghamton.edu/special-issue-on-mixed-race/
  27. http://www1.easternct.edu/pressreleases/tag/connecticut-review/
  28. "ALA | News". ala.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  29. "Allen | English". english.osu.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  30. "Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run". americanliterature.dukejournals.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  31. "Dog Road Woman | Coffee House Press". coffeehousepress.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  32. "Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction | MSU Press". msupress.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  33. "Project MUSE - Login". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  34. " "Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer - University of Nebraska Press". nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  35. "NCW--What the Critics Say About". mockingbird.creighton.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  36. http://www.freewebs.com/sdfestivalofbooks/presenters.htm
  37. Kari Sable. "Hate Crimes". karisable.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  38. "Mississippi Quarterly: News". missq.msstate.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  39. http://www.sdpb.org/Archives/ProgramDetail.asp?ProgID=6810
  40. feed://podcast.com/show/74314/rss
  41. Porter, J.; Roemer, K.M. (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780521822831. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  42. "CT Review | A semi Annual Publication Serving National Literary and Intellectual Discourse". ct.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  43. http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/index.php?id=5913
  44. University of Nebraska Biographical Page for Endowed Chair
  45. 1 2 "Center for Great Plains Studies | University of NebraskaLincoln". unl.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  46. 1 2 3 4 http://www.artscouncil.sd.gov/aisc/lit5.aspx
  47. "EBSCO Online Library Search Engine Directory - Find Articles, News, Periodicals and Other Premium Online Content". connection.ebscohost.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  48. 1 2 3 4 "Wordcraft Circle — of Native Writers and Storytellers". wordcraftcircle.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  49. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/totopos/index.html
  50. http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue2/0206p65.htm
  51. "Redirect To Michigan.gov Portal". michigan.gov. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  52. "Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation - Welcome". sfacf.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  53. "Joyce - Links". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  54. "New Mexico Press Women | New Mexico's largest inclusive media organization". newmexicopresswomen.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  55. "PEN American Center - The Present Past: Celebrating Writers of Color". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  56. http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/index.php?id=39530
  57. "Hartwick-The Visiting Writers Series". hartwick.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  58. The University of Nebraska at Kearney Endowed Chair Faculty webpage
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