Jack Myers

Jack Myers, the 2003 Texas Poet Laureate, is the author of seventeen books of and about poetry, the most recent include the textbook The Poet's Portable Workshop(HeinleWadsworth) and The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems(winner of The Violet Crown Award) and OneOnOne, Blindsided(winner of the 1993 Texas Institute of Letters Award), and an anthology of contemporary poetry co-edited with Roger Weingarten, New American Poets of the 90s. Myers has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, is a National Poetry Series Open Competition winner, and Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at several universities. He served as the Vice-President for Associated Writing Programs from 1993-95 and is a former Director of creative writing at Southern Methodist University, as well as President of The Writer's Garrett, a Dallas literary center.


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