About Jamie Parsley
Jamie Parsley
Jamie is an accomplished and award-winning poet and
writer. The first of his ten books of poems, Paper Doves,
Falling, was published in 1992. Over the next 15 years, he
published six more books of poems, including The
Loneliness of Blizzards (1995), Cloud (1997), The Wounded
Table (1999), earth into earth (2000), no stars, no moon
(2004) and Ikon (2005). Just Once (2007) chronicled his
diagnosis, treatment and ultimate recovery from cancer
in 2002. This Grass (2009) was a book of poems written in
collaboration with painting by artist Gin Templeton.
Fargo, 1957 (2010) is an elegiac chronicle of the 1957
tornado that struck Fargo, North Dakota. His poems,
fiction, sermons and prayers have been published in
literary journals and anthologies in the United States,
Britain, Canada and Japan.
His prayer “A Prayer on the Feast Day of Jonathan
Myrick Daniels” appeared in the anthology Race and
Prayer: Collected Voices Many Dreams, edited by Macolm
Boyd and Chester Talton and published in 2003 by
Morehouse. His sermon “Jesus in Showbiz” appeared in
the anthology Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2
Songbook, published in 2003 by Cowley Publications.
Several of his prayers were included in Evangelical
Lutheran Worship Pastoral Care (2008).
In 2004, he was named Associate Poet Laureate of North
Dakota by Poet Laureate Larry Woiwode. As an
Associate Poet Laureate, he often travels to schools
around North Dakota to talk about poetry and to
promote North Dakota Out Loud.
Jamie has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont
College of Norwich University.
He also studied theology at the School of Theology at
Thornloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, St. Joseph’s
College, Standish, Maine and graduated with a Master’s
Degree from Nashotah House Seminary, Nashotah,
Wisconsin.
He was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2004. He
currently serves as Priest-in-Charge of St. Stephen's
Episcopal Church in Fargo.
What other writers have said about Jamie Parsley's
writing:
Jon Hassler, author of North of Hope and Staggerford said,
“Jamie Parsley’s poems are so evocative, so lonely, so
understated, that I admire them very much. One of his
best talents is avoiding wordiness—a mistake so common
to many poets, in my opinion. The reader feels very
comfortable fitting himself into the silences of Jamie’s
poems.”
Cid Corman , the late editor of Origin magazine and
poet, said, “The feeling [in Jamie Parsley's poems] is
warm and open and good. . .a good feeling all around.
Given his years—notable.”
Jamie is an accomplished and award-winning poet and
writer. The first of his ten books of poems, Paper Doves,
Falling, was published in 1992. Over the next 15 years, he
published six more books of poems, including The
Loneliness of Blizzards (1995), Cloud (1997), The Wounded
Table (1999), earth into earth (2000), no stars, no moon
(2004) and Ikon (2005). Just Once (2007) chronicled his
diagnosis, treatment and ultimate recovery from cancer
in 2002. This Grass (2009) was a book of poems written in
collaboration with painting by artist Gin Templeton.
Fargo, 1957 (2010) is an elegiac chronicle of the 1957
tornado that struck Fargo, North Dakota. His poems,
fiction, sermons and prayers have been published in
literary journals and anthologies in the United States,
Britain, Canada and Japan.
His prayer “A Prayer on the Feast Day of Jonathan
Myrick Daniels” appeared in the anthology Race and
Prayer: Collected Voices Many Dreams, edited by Macolm
Boyd and Chester Talton and published in 2003 by
Morehouse. His sermon “Jesus in Showbiz” appeared in
the anthology Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2
Songbook, published in 2003 by Cowley Publications.
Several of his prayers were included in Evangelical
Lutheran Worship Pastoral Care (2008).
In 2004, he was named Associate Poet Laureate of North
Dakota by Poet Laureate Larry Woiwode. As an
Associate Poet Laureate, he often travels to schools
around North Dakota to talk about poetry and to
promote North Dakota Out Loud.
Jamie has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont
College of Norwich University.
He also studied theology at the School of Theology at
Thornloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, St. Joseph’s
College, Standish, Maine and graduated with a Master’s
Degree from Nashotah House Seminary, Nashotah,
Wisconsin.
He was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2004. He
currently serves as Priest-in-Charge of St. Stephen's
Episcopal Church in Fargo.
What other writers have said about Jamie Parsley's
writing:
Jon Hassler, author of North of Hope and Staggerford said,
“Jamie Parsley’s poems are so evocative, so lonely, so
understated, that I admire them very much. One of his
best talents is avoiding wordiness—a mistake so common
to many poets, in my opinion. The reader feels very
comfortable fitting himself into the silences of Jamie’s
poems.”
Cid Corman , the late editor of Origin magazine and
poet, said, “The feeling [in Jamie Parsley's poems] is
warm and open and good. . .a good feeling all around.
Given his years—notable.”
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