Jane Mead
Jane Mead (born 1958, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, author of four poetry collections. Her most recent is To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019 (Alice James Books, 2019). Her honors include fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations, and a Whiting Award. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares,[1] Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990.[2] She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until she was twelve. Her father taught ichthyology at Harvard University. After Cambridge, she moved around a great deal with her mother and stepfather, who was a journalist, living in New Mexico, London, and Cambridge, England. She graduated from Vassar College and from Syracuse University and the University of Iowa. She taught and was Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University. Since the death of her father in 2003, she has managed the family ranch in Northern California. She teaches at New England College[3] and co-owns Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.
Honors and awards
- 2017 World of Made and Unmade shortlisted for 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
- 2004 Ploughshares Cohen Award
- 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
- 1992 Whiting Award
- Lannan Foundation Completion Grant[5]
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- World of Made and Unmade. Alice James Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-938584-32-9.
- Money Money Money I Water Water Water. Alice James Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-938584-04-6.
- The Usable Field. Alice James Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-882295-69-2.
- House of Poured-Out Waters. University of Illinois Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-252-06944-4.
- The Lord and the General Din of the World. Sarabande Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-9641151-1-8.
Anthologies Edited
- Jane Mead, ed. (1994). Many and More: A Celebration of Love in Later Life. Timken Publishers. ISBN 978-0-943221-21-2.
In Anthology
- Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.
References
External links
- "An Interview with Jane Mead" > Poetry Daily
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Poem: "The Origin", poets.org
- Poem: "Alleged Speculation", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The Specter and His World are One ", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The High Hither, The Embrace", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The Part—and the Whole of It", Electronic Poetry Review