Terry Ehret Explained
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
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
- 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
- Book: Lucky Break . Sixteen Rivers Press . 2008 . 978-0-9767642-6-7 . registration .
- Book: Translations from the Human Language . Sixteen Rivers Press. 2001. 978-0-9707370-1-4 .
- How We Go on Living (Protean Press, 1995)
- Book: Lost Body. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. 978-1-55659-057-3 .
Anthologies
- Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (University of New England Press, 1996)
- Book: The gift of tongues: twenty-five years of poetry from Copper Canyon Press. registration. Sam Hamill. Copper Canyon Press. 1996. 978-1-55659-116-7 .
- Book: Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology: 1996 To 2005. Geri Digiorno . Bill Vartnaw. Taurean Horn Press. 2007. 978-0-931552-15-1 .
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Biographical Information | Personal Website for Terry Ehret . Terryehret.wordpress.com . 8 August 2009. 2022-03-10.
- Web site: About Sixteen Rivers Press . 2009-09-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081203152638/http://www.sixteenrivers.org/about.asp . 2008-12-03 .
- News: Sonoma County's poet laureate is one of the prose . Joy Lanzendorfer. San Francisco Chronicle. October 10, 2003 .
- http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4169
