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Poetry Santa Cruz Monthly Event
10/13/2009 7:30 pm
10/13/2009 9:00 pm
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Jane Mead and
Brian Teare
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Prize-winning poet Jane Mead
is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Usable Field
(Alice James Books, 2008). Her previous collections include The House of Poured-Out Waters
(Illinois, 2001) and The Lord and the General Din of the World (Sarabande, 1986),
for which she received the Katherine A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Her more recent honors
include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation, and a
Whiting Writer’s Award. For many years the Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University,
she now manages the family ranch in northern California.
Read two poems by Jane Mead on the Academy of American Poets website: “The Origin” and “I Have Been Living.” Read Jane Mead’s poem “Was Light,—” which received the 2004 Cohen Award from Ploughshares.
Download for reading a PDF of a seven-page excerpt from Brian Teare’s latest collection, Sight Map. Read on the Poems for the First 100 Days website “Citizen Strophes,” Brian Teare’s poem written for Day 29 of President Obama’s term. |
