Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes

Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes's previous books include First Language (Juniper Prize), To Remain (Ges Award), and Magnetism (Poetry Award from Bay Area Book Reviewers Association), and his most recent, Bodysong . His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly , and Best American Poetry, among others. He received a 1997 National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing...See more

Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes's previous books include First Language (Juniper Prize), To Remain (Ges Award), and Magnetism (Poetry Award from Bay Area Book Reviewers Association), and his most recent, Bodysong . His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly , and Best American Poetry, among others. He received a 1997 National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Center at Santa Clara University and lives in San Francisco with his wife, writer Frances Mayes. See less