When my kids were tiny, all they wanted was to hang on me. Probably my mom felt bereft when she came to visit, when after the first thrill of her presence they would turn to me instead—as now I feel bereft when, after the first thrill, my grandchildren turn to their mothers. There is nothing […]
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth's seventh book of poems is Paradise Is Jagged (Terrapin Books, 2023). Her sixth is The Bones of Winter Birds (Terrapin Books, 2019); her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi (Wings Press, 2018). With Laura-Gray Street, Ann coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013; third printing 2020). A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, she has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Storyknife, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, the Mesa Refuge, and Camac/France, and was 2017 Poet in Residence at Randolph College. Her poems and essays appear widely and have received numerous awards, including a 2022-2023 Mississippi Arts Commission poetry fellowship. She recently retired from the University of Mississippi.