Oni Buchanan
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Oni Buchanan | |
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.jpg) Buchanan at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
| Born | 9 March 1975 Hershey, PA, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, New England Conservatory of Music |
| Occupations | Poet - concert pianist - founder and director of Classical Music Management Company |
| Website | www.onibuchanan.com |
Oni Buchanan (born 1975) is an American poet, and pianist. Her poetry collections include Spring (University of Illinois Press, 2008), a 2007 National Poetry Series winner, as well as Must a Violence (2012) and Time Being (2020), both published by the University of Iowa Press. Her first book, What Animal, came out with the University of Georgia Press in 2003. Her discography includes three solo piano CDs on the independent Velvet Ear Records label.[1] Her concert programming is often interdisciplinary in nature. She has performed solo recitals throughout the United States and abroad.[2]
She graduated from the University of Virginia, from the New England Conservatory of Music, with a Master's degree in piano performance, and from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop an M.F.A. in poetry. Her teachers included Russell Sherman, Stephen Drury, Daniel Mark Epstein, Patricia Zander, Uriel Tsachor, and Mimi Tung.
Full-length poetry collections
- Time Being
- Must a Violence
- Spring. University of Illinois Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-252-07564-3.
- What Animal. University of Georgia Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8203-2567-5.
Electronic literature works
Buchanan's large-scale kinetic poem "The Mandrake Vehicles" is included in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 (ELC2), published by MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities).
Anthology publications
- Lyn Hejinian; David Lehman, eds. (2004). "The Walk". The best American poetry, 2004. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5757-2.
- Michael Dumanis; Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1.
- Brett Fletcher Lauer; Aimee Kelley, eds. (2004). Isn't it romantic: 100 love poems by younger American poets. Verse Press. ISBN 978-0-9746353-1-6.
