About
Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee with poems in Black Warrior Review, The Journal, PANK, and others. A student at Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poetry, he volunteers as a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest. He is also listed in Poets & Writers.
Experience
Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow
Editorial Assistant, Hobart (2018 – 2019)
Editorial Assistant, Poetry Northwest (2022 – present)
Commissioned by The Porch for Poetry In Motion (“Commute,” “To Downtown,” and “Transit” 2020)
Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar, Fisk University (B.A. English; Minor, Women and Gender Studies, 2016 – 2020; summa cum laude)
First-Round Poetry Judge, Porch Prize (‘20, ‘21, ‘22)
Guest Columnist, The Rumpus
Guest Columnist, The Tennessean
Guest Lecturer at Wesleyan University, poet Jonathan Andrew Pérez’s “Poetic Justice: Race, Law, and Critical Consciousness” (re: “Types of Burns”)
Intern, BookPage (2019 – 2020)
MFA Degree in Poetry, Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2022 – 2024)
Poetry Reader, TriQuarterly (2021 – 2022)
Reading of Two Self-Portraits in Hobart and Q&A for “Politics, Desire, & the Politics of Desire” class with poet Michael Chang
Volunteer, Frist Art Museum (2016 – 2020)