Crooker Receives 36th Pushcart Nomination
A highly accomplished
poet, Barbara's poems have appeared in magazines such as The Green Mountains Review, The Hollins
Critic, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit
Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, Poetry
International, The Christian Century, America and
anthologies such as The Bedford
Introduction to Literature, Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking
Penguin), Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press), and Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on
Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press).
Barbara is the recipient
of the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud,
the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for
the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton
Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 April Is the Cruelest Month Award from
Poets & Writers among many others. Barbara has had 16 residencies at VCCA
and one at the Moulin à Nef and a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. In
addition to the Pushcart nominees, Barbara is a five-time nominee for Best of
the Net. She was a 1997 Grammy Awards Finalist for her part in the audio
version of the popular anthology, Grow
Old Along With Me —The Best is Yet to Be (Papier-Mache Press).
Barbara’s books are Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press
First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, which came out from Word
Press in 2008 and won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; More (C&R Press, 2010); and Gold (Cascade Books, a division of
Wipf and Stock, in their Poeima Poetry Series, 2013).
Barbara’s poetry has
been read by Garrison Keillor on The
Writer's Almanac, and in Ted Kooser's column, American Life in Poetry and she has read her poems in the Poetry at
Noon series at the Library of Congress, in Auvillar, France, at the Geraldine
R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and many other venues.
www.barbaracrooker.com
Comments