Elise Maria Paschen, a poet of Osage descent, is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country. The Osage Nation is a tribe in the United States, which is mainly based in Osage County Oklahoma, but can be found throughout America Poetry in Motion is an arts program developed in 1992 by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Poetry Society of America to make the use of The daughter of renowned prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, and Chicago builder Henry D. Maria Tallchief (born January 24 1925 was an American Ballerina. Paschen, she was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended the Francis W. Parker School. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Francis W Parker School is an independent Day school serving students from junior kindergarten through grade twelve of high school A graduate of Harvard University, she holds M. Phil. and D. Phil. degrees in 20th Century British and American Literature from Oxford University. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the
Dr. Paschen is the author of Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Ploughshares and Shenandoah, among other magazines, and in numerous anthologies, including Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America; A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women; Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, and The POETRY Anthology, 1912—2002. In Poetry, the ghazal ( Arabic / Persian / Urdu: غزل; Hindi: ग़ज़ल Turkish gazel) is a
She is editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and co-editor of Poetry Speaks Expanded,[1] Poetry Speaks,[2] Poetry in Motion, and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast. [3]
Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001, she recently was appointed the Poet Laureate of Three Oaks, Michigan. She was the featured Illinois poet at the National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress in September 2006. Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premiere fine arts colleges located in Chicago, Illinois. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Stuart Brainerd, and their two children.