Helping the Morning

New and Selected Poems

Jeanne Murray Walker

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Subject Category: Poetry
Length: xvi + 269 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paper
Published: April 2014
ISBN: 978-1-60226-014-6

 

Jeanne Murray Walker (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is a poet and playwright whose work has been widely published and performed. She heads the creative writing program at the University of Delaware, where she has been a professor of English for forty years. She also serves as a mentor in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Seattle Pacific University and on the boards of Shenandoah and Image magazines.

Her poems and essays have been published in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Christian Century, Blackbird, Image and several hundred other journals. Her scripts have been performed in theaters across the United States. They are published by Dramatic Publishing Company, and they are archived in North American Women's Drama. Walker is coeditor (with Daryl Tippens) of Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith and author of a memoir, The Geography of Memory. She is the author of seven books of poetry in addition to Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems.

Walker's work has been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, eight Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, the Glenna Luschei-Prairie Schooner Prize, many Pushcart nominations, inclusion in Best American Poetry, and inclusion in the 100-year anniversary anthology of Poetry magazine.

Jeanne Murray Walker Online

Visit her website or read more at Wikipedia, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book or the Poetry Foundation.

Other Books by Jeanne Murray Walker

Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poerms (WordFarm)
The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's (Hachette)
New Tracks, Night Falling (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
A Deed to the Light (University of Illinois Press)