Wendy B.Barker
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Wendy Barker has published four full-length collections of poetry, including Poems from Paradise (2005), Way of Whiteness (2000), Let the Ice Speak (1991), and Winter Chickens (1990), as well as two chapbooks, Eve Remembers (1996) and Between Frames (2006). A novel in prose poems, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, was runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and is forthcoming from Del Sol Press in 2009, and a third chapbook, Things of the Weather, is forthcoming from Pudding House. A selection of poems accompanied by autobiographical essays, Poems' Progress, appeared in 2002, and her translations (with Saranindranath Tagore) from the Bengali of India's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems (2001), received the Sourette Diehl Fraser Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Individual poems and translations have appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Stand, Partisan Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Antioch . Barker has read her poetry at dozens of universities, bookstores, festivals, and conferences in the United States , Europe, and in India , and her work is frequently anthologized. As a scholar, she is the author of Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor (1987) as well as co-editor (with Sandra M. Gilbert) of The House is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth Stone (1996). Recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Rockefeller residency fellowship at Bellagio, as well as other awards in poetry, including the Violet Crown Book Award (which she has received twice, for Way of Whiteness in 2000, and for Between Frames in 2007), and the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar , she has also been a Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria. Her work has been translated into Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, and Bulgarian. She is Poet-in Residence and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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