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Barbara Crooker

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Vol. 3 (2010): Summer 2010
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Poetry
Author Biography

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker

 

has published over 650 poems in over 2050 publications, including magazines such as Yankee , The Christian Science Monitor, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Christian Century, River City, America, The Atlanta Review, and The Denver Quarterly; anthologies, include Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor, editor), Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework; ten chapbooks, and three full-length books, Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, (Word Tech, 2008) which won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and More (C&R Press, 2010). She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, twenty-six Pushcart Prize nominations, was a finalist for a Grammy Award (Spoken Word Category), and won these national poetry competitions: the 1997 Karamu Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Writings

Y2K Award, the 2001 ByLine Chapbook Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of

the Sacred Award, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of NY Poetry Prize, the 2004 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, The 2006

Rosebud Ekphractic Poetry Prize, and 2007 the Pen and Brush Poetry Prize. Recently, Garrison Keillor read seventeen of her poems on The Writer's Almanac.