Terry Ehret
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Terry Ehret (born 1955 San Francisco) is an American poet.
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[edit] 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 2004–2006,[3] where she lives with her husband.[4]
[edit] 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
[edit] Work
- Lucky Break. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2008. ISBN 9780976764267.
- Translations from the Human Language. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2001. ISBN 9780970737014.
- How We Go on Living (Protean Press, 1995)
- Lost Body. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 9781556590573.
[edit] Anthologies
- 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 9781556591167.
- Geri Digiorno, Bill Vartnaw, ed. (2007). Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology: 1996 To 2005. Taurean Horn Press. ISBN 9780931552151.
[edit] References
- ^ http://terryehret.wordpress.com/about/
- ^ http://www.sixteenrivers.org/about.asp
- ^ Joy Lanzendorfer (October 10, 2003). "Sonoma County's poet laureate is one of the prose". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/10/NBG2U271KU1.DTL.
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4169
