Terry Ehret
Terry Ehret | |
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Born | 1955 (age 68–69) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Education | Stanford University San Francisco State University (MA) |
Terry Ehret (born 1955 in San Francisco) is an American poet. She has published several collections of poetry including Suspensions, Lost Body, and Translations from the Human Language.
Life
[edit]She graduated from Stanford University in 1977, and from San Francisco State University in 1984, with an MA.[1] She is the co-founder of Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared-work publishing collective for San Francisco Bay Area poets.[2]
She served as poet laureate of Sonoma County, from 2004 to 2006,[3] where she lives with her husband.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 1993 National Poetry Series
- 1994 California Book Award, silver medal for poetry
- 1995 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize
- 2008 Northern California Book Reviewers nomination for poetry
Work
[edit]- Lucky Break. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9767642-6-7.
- Translations from the Human Language. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-9707370-1-4.
- How We Go on Living (Protean Press, 1995)
- Lost Body. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-057-3.
Anthologies
[edit]- Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (University of New England Press, 1996)
- Sam Hamill, ed. (1996). The gift of tongues: twenty-five years of poetry from Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-55659-116-7.
- Geri Digiorno; Bill Vartnaw, eds. (2007). Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology: 1996 To 2005. Taurean Horn Press. ISBN 978-0-931552-15-1.
References
[edit]- ^ "Biographical Information | Personal Website for Terry Ehret". Terryehret.wordpress.com. 8 August 2009. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ "About Sixteen Rivers Press". Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ Joy Lanzendorfer (October 10, 2003). "Sonoma County's poet laureate is one of the prose". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4169 [dead link]