Barbara Ras. Courtesy Trinity University Press.
Barbara Ras (born 1949) is an American poet, translator, and publisher.
Life[]
Ras was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts . She graduated from Simmons College, and University of Oregon. She taught writing at Warren Wilson College.
She has been on the editorial staffs of Wesleyan University Press, the University Press of New England, the University of California Press, North Point Press and Sierra Club Books. She was senior editor acquiring environmental books for the University of Georgia Press.[1][2] Since 2005, she has been the director of Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas.[3][4] She lives with her husband; they have a daughte, born in 1984.
She has traveled extensively in Latin America and lived for periods of time in Colombia and Costa Rica.
Her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Boulevard, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, American Scholar, and Spoon River Poetry Review.
Recognition[]
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- 1997 Walt Whitman Award, chosen by C.K. Williams[3]
- 1999 Georgia Poet of the Year [3]
- Ascher Montandon Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- honors from the National Writers Union, Villa Montalvo, San Jose Poetry Center.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Bite Every Sorrow: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
- One Hidden Stuff. New York: Penguin, 2006.
- The Last Skin. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Edited[]
- Costa Rica: A traveler's literary companion. San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1994.
You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Phil Williams, Poet Barbara Ras to Present Reading on at UGA, September 13, 1999. Web, June 16, 2009}}
- ↑ "www.utc.edu/Academic/TennesseeWriters/authors/ras.barbara.html". http://www.utc.edu/Academic/TennesseeWriters/authors/ras.barbara.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Barbara Ras, The Poetry Center, Smith College, Web, Nov. 20, 2012
- ↑ "www.pw.org/content/barbara_ras". http://www.pw.org/content/barbara_ras.
- ↑ "www.gf.org/fellows/16468-barbara-ras". http://www.gf.org/fellows/16468-barbara-ras.
- ↑ Search results = au:Barbara Ras, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 14, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Barbara Ras profile and 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Poem: "It Came Down Ice Last Night". Orion Magazine. March/April 2008. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/2854/.
- "Washing the Elephant," The New Yorker
- Barbara Ras b. 1949 at the Poetry Foundation
- Barbara Ras at Amazon.com
- About
- Barbara Ras at The Poetry Center at Smith College
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