Wendy Barker has published four books of poetry and two chapbooks. She has twice received the Violet Crown Book Award (for Way of Whiteness, Wings Press, 2000, and for Between Frames, Pecan Grove Press, 2006). Other awards include the Sourette Diehl Fraser award for her translations (with Saranindranath Tagore), Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems (Braziller, 2001), an NEA fellowship, and a Rockefeller fellowship to Bellagio. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The American Scholar, Poetry, and Gettysburg Review, and she has new work forthcoming from Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, and Marlboro Review. She is Poet in Residence and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
audio recording of "Full Moon, Cirrocumulus, Light Breeze, and Iridescence":
audio recording of a reading at The Twig in San Antonio, Texas, 21 February 2009:
audio recording of two poems from Two Southwests, in English and Cantonese (read by Elaine Wong), at The Twig in San Antonio, Texas, 21 February 2009: