About

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee with poems in Black Warrior Review, The Journal, Pleiades, and others. A Truman Capote fellow 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, 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”

Intern, BookPage (2019 – 2020)

Mentor, The Bridge (2022 – present)

Poetry Reader, TriQuarterly (2021 – 2022)

Reading and Q&A for “Politics, Desire, & the Politics of Desire” class with poet Michael Chang

Truman Capote Literary Fellow, University of Iowa (MFA Creative Writing, 2022 – 2024)

Volunteer, Frist Art Museum (2016 – 2020)