Janet Holmes (poet) explained

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.

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

• The ms of m y kin (Shearsman Books, 2009)
• F2F (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
• Humanophone (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001)
• The Green Tuxedo (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998)
• The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga Press, 1994)

Chapbooks

• Paperback Romance (State Street Press, 1984)

Honors and awards

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

• 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

Sources

• Boise State University > English Department Faculty Profile > Janet Holmes
• Library of Congress Online Catalog > Janet Holmes

External links

• Poems: Beloit Poetry Journal > Winter 2011, Vol. 61, No. 2 > Janet Holmes
• 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
• Self interview/blog feature: Harriet the Blog: The Poetry Foundation > Janet Holmes Writes About Ahsahta Press, Publishing & Writing
• Author page: University of Notre Dame Press > Janet Holmes > F2F
• Author page: Anhinga Press > Janet Holmes > The Physicist at the Mall
• Author website > Janet Holmes

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ahsahta Press. December 11, 2019. Poets & Writers.
2. Web site: Boise State University > English Department Faculty Profile > Janet Holmes . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100527224836/http://www.boisestate.edu/english/jholmes/about/cv.html . 2010-05-27 . 2010-11-12.
3. Web site: 2019-04-24 . Janet Holmes . 2023-11-15 . Boise State News . en.
4. Web site: Shearsman Books > Author Page > Janet Holmes > The ms of m y kin .
5. Web site: The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library > 1999 Minnesota Book Award Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100709124147/http://www.thefriends.org/mba_winners_1999.html . 2010-07-09 . 2010-11-12.
6. Web site: MacDowell Colony Fellows Index > Writers . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php . 2009-05-26 . 2010-11-12.