Janet Holmes (poet)

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Janet Holmes is an American poet and professor.

Education and career

Holmes earned her B.A. from Duke University and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College.

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She was the director of Ahsahta Press. [1]

She taught at Boise State University in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing from 1999 [2] through 2019. [3]

Published works

She is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The ms of m y kin [4] (Shearsman Books, 2009). Her poems were published in literary journals including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal , Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, MiPoesias, Nimrod, Pleiades, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1995 .

Full-length collections

Chapbooks

Honors and awards

Her honors include the Minnesota Book Award [5] and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. [6] [2]

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References

  1. "Ahsahta Press". Poets & Writers. December 11, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Boise State University > English Department Faculty Profile > Janet Holmes". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  3. "Janet Holmes". Boise State News. 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  4. "Shearsman Books > Author Page > Janet Holmes > The ms of m y kin".
  5. "The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library > 1999 Minnesota Book Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  6. "MacDowell Colony Fellows Index > Writers". Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2010-11-12.

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