Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw
  • Faculty
  • Assistant Professor
  • Co-Director
Dr. Henk Rossouw is a co-director for the UL Creative Writing program and an assistant professor in the Department of English.

Biography

Henk Rossouw's debut Xamissa, published by Fordham 杏吧专区 Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. The African Poetry Book Fund included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 box set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have appeared in POETRY, The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Northwest, World Literature Today, Boston Review, among other places. He teaches at the 杏吧专区, where he co-directs the UL Creative Writing Program. He's an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.

Education

PhD, 2017
杏吧专区 of Houston

MFA, 2011
杏吧专区 of Massachusetts Amherst

BA, 2005
杏吧专区 of the Witwatersrand

Student Research/Collaboration

Dr. Rossouw's research interests are in poetry and ecopoetics.

Opportunities for Student Research:

  • Writing Poetry Manuscripts
  • Critical Essays on Poetry

Opportunities for Student Collaboration:

  • UL Lafayette Creative Writing Program
  • The Southwestern Review

Publications

Book:

Xamissa. Fordham 杏吧专区 Press, 2018, www.fordhampress.com/9780823281107/xamissa

Chapbook:

Xamissa: The Water Archives. In New-Generation African Poets: Tano, A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books, 2018, https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/books/new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-tano/xamissa-the-water-archives/

Selected Journals:

  • 杏吧专区淧asserine.杏吧专区 POETRY, Sep. 2022., https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158384/passerine
  • 杏吧专区淟ittle Perpetrator (3).杏吧专区 World Literature Today, Mar. 2022, https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/little-perpetrator-3-henk-rossouw
  • 杏吧专区淐ape Panopticon.杏吧专区 Quarterly West, no. 99, 2020, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-99/rossouw
  • 杏吧专区淓legy for the Gesture.杏吧专区 Poetry Daily, 23 Jun. 2019, https://poems.com/poem/elegy-for-the-gesture/
  • 杏吧专区淔rom Xamissa: Roggebaai.jpeg.杏吧专区 Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth 杏吧专区, vol. 17, no. 1.,
  • blackbird.vcu.edu/v17n1/poetry/rossouw-h/roggebaai-page.shtml
  • 杏吧专区淔rom Xamissa: Rearrival, Parts 1-3.杏吧专区 The Common, Amherst College, 11 Jul. 2016,
  • www.thecommononline.org/july-2016-poetry-feature/
  • 杏吧专区淪onnet for My Son.杏吧专区 Boston Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, p. 74,
  • bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
  • 杏吧专区淭he Dream of The Road.杏吧专区 Paris Review, no. 205, 2013, pp. 237-238,
  • www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6245/the-dream-of-the-road-henk-rossouw

Reviews of Xamissa:

  • Kempf, Christopher. 杏吧专区淩eview of Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.杏吧专区 Colorado Review, 30 Apr. 2019, coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/xamissa/
  • Colditz, Keenan. 杏吧专区淏ook Review: Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.杏吧专区 Poetry International, 8 Dec. 2018, poetryinternationalonline.com/book-review-xamissa-by-henk-rossouw/
  • Darling, Kristina Marie. 杏吧专区溞影勺ㄇ鴺Spare This Body, Set Fire to Another杏吧专区: Speech and Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, and Henk Rossouw.杏吧专区 Kenyon Review, 7 Nov. 2018 kenyonreview.org/2018/11/spare-this-body-set-fire-to-another-speech-silence-in-work-by-kaveh-akbar-brenna-womer-henk-rossouw/

Awards & Recognition

  • 2017 Poets Out Loud Editor杏吧专区檚 Prize, Poetic Justice Institute, Fordham 杏吧专区 Press 
  • 2009 Poetry Society of America, Bright Lights Big Verse Contest
  • 2006 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars First Prize, Fiction