Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair : Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar

by Wiggerman, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780976005148
• ISBN10: 097600514X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: DOS Gatos Pr

Summary

This is an anthology of 280 poems that appeared in the Texas Poetry Calendar over the first decade of its existence. It includes poems organized into four broad categories: Texas people, Texas flora/fauna, Texas places, and Texas weather/seasons. While many of the poems are written by poets who live in Texas, there are also a number of poems by poets who don't live in Texas but have been touched by it. The anthology represents the diverse state that Texas is, including poems from world-renowned poets like Naomi Shihab Nye to those who are just starting out in poetry.

Author Biography

Scott Wiggerman is the author of Vegetables and Other Relationships (Plain View Press, 2000) and editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press), now in its eleventh year. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Poesia, Contemporary Sonnet, Visions International, Spillway, Sojourn, and the Paterson Literary Review. In addition, his poems appear in several anthologies, including This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004), In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief (Sherman Asher, 2006), The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press, 2007), and Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press, 2008).