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 University 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 老司机福利网, where he co-directs the UL Creative Writing Program. He's an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly.

Education

PhD, 2017
University of Houston

MFA, 2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst

BA, 2005
University 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 老司机福利网 Creative Writing Program
  • The Southwestern Review

Publications

Book:

Xamissa. Fordham University 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:

  • 鈥淧asserine.鈥 POETRY, Sep. 2022., https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/158384/passerine
  • 鈥淟ittle Perpetrator (3).鈥 World Literature Today, Mar. 2022, https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/little-perpetrator-3-henk-rossouw
  • 鈥淐ape Panopticon.鈥 Quarterly West, no. 99, 2020, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-99/rossouw
  • 鈥淓legy for the Gesture.鈥 Poetry Daily, 23 Jun. 2019, https://poems.com/poem/elegy-for-the-gesture/
  • 鈥淔rom Xamissa: Roggebaai.jpeg.鈥 Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth University, vol. 17, no. 1.,
  • blackbird.vcu.edu/v17n1/poetry/rossouw-h/roggebaai-page.shtml
  • 鈥淔rom Xamissa: Rearrival, Parts 1-3.鈥 The Common, Amherst College, 11 Jul. 2016,
  • www.thecommononline.org/july-2016-poetry-feature/
  • 鈥淪onnet for My Son.鈥 Boston Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, p. 74,
  • bostonreview.net/poetry/henk-rossouw-sonnet-my-son
  • 鈥淭he Dream of The Road.鈥 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. 鈥淩eview of Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.鈥 Colorado Review, 30 Apr. 2019, coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/xamissa/
  • Colditz, Keenan. 鈥淏ook Review: Xamissa, by Henk Rossouw.鈥 Poetry International, 8 Dec. 2018, poetryinternationalonline.com/book-review-xamissa-by-henk-rossouw/
  • Darling, Kristina Marie. 鈥溾楽pare This Body, Set Fire to Another鈥: Speech and Silence in Work by Kaveh Akbar, Brenna Womer, and Henk Rossouw.鈥 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鈥檚 Prize, Poetic Justice Institute, Fordham University Press 
  • 2009 Poetry Society of America, Bright Lights Big Verse Contest
  • 2006 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars First Prize, Fiction