Linda Bierds

Linda Bierds (born 1945) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969. She was born in Delaware and now lives on Bainbridge Island. [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?|Poetry Foundation page on Linda Bierds also includes texts of several poems and a reading guide.id=81728] Her books include "Flights of the Harvest Mare"; "The Stillness, the Dancing"; "Heart and Perimeter"; and "The Ghost Trio" (Henry Holt 1994). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Artist Trust Foundation of Washington and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker. In 1998 she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant. Her poems are featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies.

Works

*Beasts: three short stories (1971)
*Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui (1982)
*Off the Aleutian chain : poetry (1985)
*Flights of the harvest-mare (1985)
*The stillness, the dancing : poems (1988)
*Heart and perimeter : poems (1991)
*The ghost trio : poems (1994)
*The profile makers : poems (1997)
*The seconds : poems (2001)
*There : Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002 (2002)
*First hand : poems (2005)

References

External links

* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/poetry/bierds_l/index.htm "Meriwether and the Magpie" by Linda Bierds] is a poem recently published in "Blackbird", an online journal of literature and the arts.
* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/bier20.shtml] Article from SeattlePI.com
* [http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue04/html/features/essays/on_linda_bierds.htm] Essay by Jeff Encke