Discipline: Literature – poetry

Anita Skeen

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Wichita, KS
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989
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Anita Skeen is professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University, where she is the arts coordinator and director of the RCAH Center for Poetry. She is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand A Map (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); The Resurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We Say Shelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Most recently, she contributed a book chapter entitled “Pomegranates, Hammocks, and Red Wheelbarrows: Just What Does Depend on Poetry?” to Creative Writing in the Community: Take it Outside (2013) edited by Terry Thaxton and a review essay of the work of five poets, “Oh the Places You’ll Go” in the literary journal, Poetry Salzburg (Vol. 24, Fall 2013).

Studios

Adams

Anita Skeen worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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