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JENNIFER BARBER
Jennifer Barber attended Colby College in Maine and studied medieval literature in England as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her MFA from Columbia University. A selection of her work appears in the anthology Take Three: 3, Agni New Poets Series (Graywolf Press, 1998); a selection also appears in the anthology Four Way Reader #2 (Four Way Books, 2001). She has also had poems in Partisan Review, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and The Journal.
Barber's Rigging the Wind won the $1,000 Kore Press First Book Award in 2002, the inaugural award of the year, and was published by Kore in June of 2003, the publishing house's 10th year anniversary. The contest was judged by poet Jane Miller, distinguished author of several volumes of poetry and past recipient of a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
The poems in Rigging the Wind deal with the closeness of relationships, but also the surprising isolation, and even danger, they can bring. Ms. Barber drew on her own marriage and family relationships, as well as the time that she spent amongst those in Galicia, Spain, who still remember the way neighbors and regions were torn apart by the Spanish Civil war.
Titles Available from Kore Press:
Online Press Kit for Rigging the Wind
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