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Christine Hume
Associate Professor
MFA, Columbia University, 1993
PhD, University of Denver, 2000
602C Pray-Harrold Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734.487.1310
chume@emich.edu
Biography:
Christine Hume was born in 1968 and has lived in sixteen different States and countries. She is the author of three books and a chapbook: Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004), winner of the Green Rose Award and Small Press Traffic’s 2005 Best Book of the Year Award; Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense, a chapbook and CD (Ugly Duckling Presse 2007) ; and most recently Shot (Counterpath Press 2009). Lux Books in Berlin will issue a bilingual Selected Poems in 2010.

Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, and Slovenian. In 2002, she was one of two Americans invited to an international festival, “Days of Poetry and Wine” in Slovenia; in 2006, she taught a poetry workshop in St. Petersburg for Summer Literary Seminars. The Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, Valaparisio Foundation in Spain, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire have awarded her residencies.

Her work has been included in anthologies such as Best American Poetry 1997 (Scribner), American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon2000), No Crossing Guards (University of Iowa 2004), Isn’t It Romantic? (Verse 2004), The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse 2005), and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande 2006), Not For Mothers Only (Fence 2007) and 12x12 (University of Georgia, 2008). She has written reviews and critical essays for a number of journals--Contemporary Literature, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, Constant Critic--as well as for the American Poets in the 21st Century series (three volumes by Wesleyan 2002; 2006; 2009).
Courses:
Reading of Literature: Poetry
Intro to CW
Writers Workshop
Contemporary Forms
Transgenre Writing
The Lyric Essay
Sound Poetry
Literature of the Plague
Literary Hoaxes and Personae
Steal this Poem: Contemporary Collage
Procedural Arts: Poetry and Painting
First Books