In the Body of Our Lives
Publication date: April 2, 2011
Paperback / 96 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9819816-3-5
Price: $16
—Jeanne Emmons
Jeanne’s poem “Ephemeral Lakes” won the 2013 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred. Read Jeanne’s poem here.
Read Jeanne’s poem “My mother was like the bees” which appeared in column 366 of Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.
Read the interview with Jeanne by Zara Raab, who is one of our anthology poets, in her “Writing Around the Bay” column in the November 14, 2011 San Francisco Book Review.
Jeanne Wagner is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length collections: The Zen Piano-mover, which won the NFSPS Poetry Prize, In the Body of Our Lives, published by Sixteen Rivers Press, and her most recent, Everything Turns Into Something Else, published in 2020 as runner-up for the Grayson Book Prize. She is the winner of the 2021 Joy Harjo Award and the 2022 Cloudbank Poetry Prize, among others. Her work has
appeared in North American Review, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, SWWIM, and The Southern Review.