Janet Holmes. Courtesy Shearsman Books.
Janet A. Holmes is an American poet and academic, and the director of Ahsahta Press.[1]
Life[]
Holmes earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She teaches at Boise State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.[2]
She is author of 6 poetry collections, including The ms of m y kin[3] (Shearsman Books, 2009), and has had her poems published in literary magazines and journals including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, MiPoesias, Nimrod, Pleiades, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1995.
Recognition[]
Her honors include the Minnesota Book Award[4] and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.[5][6]
Awards[]
- 1999 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal
- 1999 Minnesota Book Award
- 1998 Poetry Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine
- 1997 Pablo Neruda Award from Nimrod International Journal of Prose & Poetry
- 1996 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
- 1993 Anhinga Prize
- 1984 State Street Press Chapbook Award
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Paperback Romance (chapbook). Pittsford, NY: State Street Press, 1984.
- The Physicist at the Mall. Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 1994.
- The Green Tuxedo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
- Humanophone. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
- F2F. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
- The ms of m y kin. Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books, 2009.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
Janet Holmes reads "Partch Stations — Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14"
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Poets & Writers > Small Presses > Ahsahta Press
- ↑ Boise State University > English Department Faculty Profile > Janet Holmes
- ↑ Shearsman Books > Author Page > Janet Holmes > The ms of m y kin
- ↑ The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library > 1999 Minnesota Book Award Winners
- ↑ MacDowell Colony Fellows Index > Writers
- ↑ Boise State University > English Department Faculty Profile > Janet Holmes
- ↑ Search results = au:Janet Holmes, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Janet Holmes profile & poem at the Academy of American Poets
- Janet Holmes at the Woodland Pattern Book Center (1 poem)
- Two lyrics from Rondo
- Three poems by Janet Holmes at Poems for Living Waters
- "Partch Stations" in the Beloit Poetry Journal, 61:2, Winter 2011 (14 poems)
- Books
- Janet Holmes at Amazon.com
- About
- Janet Holmes at Shearsman Books
- Author Page: University of Notre Dame Press > Janet Holmes > F2F
- Author Page: Anhinga Press > Janet Holmes > The Physicist at the Mall
- Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Janet Holmes, Editor of Ahsahta Press and Stephanie Strickland at Best American Poetry
- Review: Valparisio Poetry Review > Review by Halvard Johnson of The Green Tuxedo by Janet Holmes
- Review: The Cortland Review > Issue 37 > Review by Lesley Wheeler of F2F by Janet Holmes
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