Discipline: Literature – poetry

Phyllis Stowell

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
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Phyllis Stowell earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State (University) and a Ph.D. in poetry and depth psychology from the Union Institute and University. She is the widow of Jungian analyst Julius C. Travis, MD. She is professor emerita from Saint Mary’s College and founding member of the SMC Master of Fine Arts program. She is the former chair of the Friends of the Institute (C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco). Her publications include more than 180 poems in a wide range of reviews from traditional to experimental, such as Poetry East, American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly, Wallace Stevens Review, Columbia, Epoch, Phoebe, 13th Moon, Volt, and The Jung Journal. Two long poems, “Amnesiac” and “Sequence and Consequence” were published in Psychological Perspectives. Her residencies include: Hedgebrook Farm, Djerassi, MacDowell, Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and CAMAC, Centre d’Art (Marnay-sur-seine, France) where she worked on SHIELD with her daughter, artist Pacia Sallomi.

Studios

Star

Phyllis Stowell worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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