Jaswinder Bolina (born 1978) is an American poet and essayist from Chicago.
Early life and education Jaswinder Bolina was born in 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States to Indian parents. Norton Books website, Jaswinder Bolina He received an undergraduate B.A. in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago, and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing by the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in English (concentrating on creative writing) from Ohio University.
Career
As of November 2024, Bolina is an associate professor on the creative writing faculty in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Miami, For the departmental affiliation, see also this webpage. where he has taught in the MFA program. Antioch University website, Faculty Directory, retrieved 11 November 2024
Writing corpus As of the 2020s, Bolina is known as a poet and an essayist. The New Inquiry website, Five Questions with Jaswinder Bolina, article dated April 27, 2012
His full-length poetry collections include; GoodReads website, Jaswinder Bolina, retrieved 11 November 2024 Carrier Wave (2007) Phantom Camera (2013), which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry from New Issues Poetry & Prose; JStor website, Reviewed Work: Phantom Camera Jaswinder Bolina, article by Anya Groner, published in The Georgia Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 541 The 44th of July (2019). GoodReads website, The 44th of July English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023)
He is also the author of the chapbook The Tallest Building in America (2014), Writer's Digest website, Jaswinder Bolina: Poet Interview, article dated March 14, 2017 and of a book of essays, Of Color (2020). The Hippocampus Magazine website, Review: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina, article by Ronnie K. Stephens dated December 2, 2020 The biographical material presented about his upcoming book, drawn from this source, was material provided by The Washington Post in a biographical header to the autobiographical article, and fact-checking of that header is presumed. He has also contributed essays to several anthologies. As of 2019, his poems were being published on the Poetry Society of America's website.
Bolina is featured in Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Poets on Teaching, in a chapter entitled, "What I Tell Them," which beginsI'd like to tell them there are too many poets. I'd like to tell them we don't need any more and don't need any more competition. Too many throbbing bodies, not enough room in the bed. I'd like to tell them, you should go to other departments. You should go to the other department and become exquisite bankers future in-laws will favor. You matter too little, and anyway there isn't any place for poetry. You know too little, what are you doing here? / I don't say these things, though I think sometimes I should. ...
Personal life Bolina is married with one child. Adroit Journal website, Conversation with Jaswinder Bolina, issue 48, published in January 2024
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