WENDY BARKER
SAINT JULIAN PRESS POET
Wendy
Barker's sixth collection of poetry, One
Blackbird at a Time, received the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (BkMk Press, 2015). Her fifth chapbook is Shimmer (Glass Lyre Press, 2019). An anthology of poems about the 1960s, Far Out: Poems of the '60s, co-edited
with Dave Parsons, was released by Wings Press in 2016. Other books include a
selection of poems with accompanying essays, Poems’ Progress (Absey & Co., 2002),
and a selection of translations, Rabindranath
Tagore: Final Poems (co-translated with Saranindranath
Tagore, Braziller, 2001). Her poems have appeared in
numerous journals and anthologies including The
Southern Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Plume, as well as The Best American Poetry 2013.
She is the author of Lunacy of
Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor (Southern Illinois
University Press, 1987), as well as co-editor (with Sandra M. Gilbert) of The House is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth
Stone (Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). Recipient of NEA and
Rockefeller fellowships among other awards, she is the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Chair and Poet-in-Residence at the
University of Texas at San Antonio, where she has taught since 1982. Wendy is
married to the critic, biographer, essayist, and poet Steven G. Kellman.
Author Photograph by Sue Hum
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