Description: This is the website for poet, educator, and musician B.J. Wilson. Find links to his most recent publications and his past literary and musical works.
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Poet/Educator/Musician
B.J. Wilson grew up in the suburbs of Louisville, with roots in both the southern and western regions of Kentucky. He earned his BA and MA in creative writing from Murray State University and his MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. He holds a writing fellowship from The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences and a Pushcart Prize Nomination for poetry. His poems appear in Exit 7, The Heartland Review, New Madrid, Tar River Poetry, Valley Voices and elsewhere. His EP
The great French mime artist Marcel Marceau, whom I once witnessed on stage re-enacting the growth of a tree, called mime “the art of silence.” Silence is also very much at the heart of how B.J. Wilson brings nature slowly and poignantly to life in Naming the Trees, and reading it is a similarly riveting experience. It is a liminal book, luminously on the line between rural and urban, self and other, secrecy and revelation. ~Ann Neelon