Emmons, Jeanne

Comments from the author about writing:
I write poetry about people, places, ideas, and feelings, aiming simply to tell the truth as I know it, hoping others may feel the ring of familiarity and strangeness that marks authentic experience.

Literary awards received and date received:

• James Hearst Poetry Prize (North American Review) 2005, for Polio Water in 1955"
• Sows Ear Review Poetry Prize, for Bathsheba Bathing 2003
• 2003 Readers Choice Award for book "The Glove of The World"
• Featured Iowa poet, International Poetry Festival, Des Moines, IA, April 2001
• Pippistrelle Best of the Small Press Award for 1998 for book "Rootbound"
• First Prize: Minnesota Voices Project Poetry Competition, 1996 for "Rootbound"
• First Place, South Coast Poetry Review contest, 1993, for These Baptizing Waters
  
• First Place, Iowa Woman magazine Poetry Competition, for Felix Culpa 1991
  

Book Types: Poetry Collection

Audience Types: Adult

Are you willing to do programs for schools, libraries, or other groups? Yes

If you are willing to do programs, will you charge a fee? Yes

Jeanne Emmons
Briar Cliff University
3303 Rebecca
Sioux City, IA 51104

E-mail Address: jeanne.emmons@briarcliff.edu

Phone Number: 712-279-1655

County: Woodbury

Books By This Author

• Rootbound, New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1998
• Baseball Nights and DDT, Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, TX, 2005
• The Glove of the World, Backwaters Press, Omaha, NE, 2006