Jaswinder Bolina
Professional Title: Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
20th century and contemporary literature with a primary focus on poetry
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Creative Writing (poetry and nonfiction)
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Introductory and Advanced Poetry Workshops
Craft Seminar in Poetry
Poetics
Senior seminar in literature (20th century American and International authors)
Intro to Lit
Principles of Textual Analysis
Writing and Rhetoric I & II
Education: BA, Loyloa University; MFA, University of Michigan; PhD, Ohio University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Books
Phantom Camera, New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, Winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize
in Poetry, forthcoming 2013
Carrier Wave, Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, Winner of the 2006
Colorado Prize for Poetry, January 2007
Poems
Another Chicago Magazine, “Variations on a Theme by César Vallejo,” forthcoming 2013
Explosion-Proof, “Federal Scene,” “The Reluctant Senator to his Provincial Mistress,” forthcoming 2012
Whole Terrain, “Coda,” forthcoming 2012
Anti, “Municipal Vistas,” June 2012
Qualm, “Ultrasonic,” “This Room, with Arsonist,” “Troposphere,” April 2012
Mandala Journal, “How to Order a Sandwich,” “We Were Stumbling Around in the Darkness,”
April 2012
Explosion-Proof, “Other Anthems,” “The Last National,” Winter 2012
Polutona (in Russian translation by Aleksey Porvin), “Tidal,” “If I Persisted for Seven Lifetimes, I’d Spend
Six of Them with You,” “Make Believe,” January 2012
Ecotone, “In Another Version of the Afterlife,” “Phantom Camera,” November 2011
The Offending Adam, “Aviary,” “Sunday, Sunday,” “Oops Canary,” November 2011
Best American Poetry 2011, “Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade,” September 2011
Columbia Poetry Review, “If I Persisted for Seven Lifetimes, I’d Spend Six of Them with You” and “Body
in a Phone Booth,” May 2011
Third Coast, “Portrait of the Minor Character,” May 2011
Jet Fuel Review, “All My Darlings,” “In My Bright Autocracy,” April 2011
Quarter After Eight, “Apologia Matilde,” January 2011
751 Magazine, “Zirconia,” “Portrait of the Memory,” January 2011
Essays
The Task of Un/Masking, “Writing Like a White Guy,” forthcoming 2013
The State, “Empathy for the Devil,” March 2012
Poetry Foundation, “Writing Like a White Guy,” November 2011
Evening Will Come, Race and Poetry Roundtable: “On Hoagland and Rankine,” October 2011
Poets on Teaching, “What I Tell Them,” University of Iowa Press, July 2010
Jaswinder is an avid cook and golfer. He also recently learned how to
catch a hippopotamus and how to remove a wall using little more than a
chainsaw and a thirty-pound maul.