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Anna George Meek has published in dozens of national journals such as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and two Minnesota State Arts Board grants. Her work has appeared on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and has been selected multiple times for both Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Her first book, Acts of Contortion, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; her chapbook Engraved won the Snowbound Chapbook Competition. Her second full-length book The Genome Rhapsodies won the Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Press. Meek lives with her husband and daughter where she sings professionally and is a professor of English in the Twin Cities.
The Genome Rhapsodies
Ashland Poetry Press, 2015
- 2014 Snyder Prize winner
- There are moments in our lives when a veil seems lifted and the interconnectedness of the world is revealed. The Genome Rhapsodies seems born from these epiphanic flashes. Lacing her own poetic voice together with a disparate array of voices and texts through bricolage, Meek s poems explore the many forms of inheritance. As her poem built from her father’s lines, “The Voice That is Mine and Not Mine,” points out: we become the words poured into us. Where we begin and end is not easily definable, after all, “The boundaries of an organism are nearly always disputable.” —Matt Rasmussen, author of Black Aperture, National Book Award finalist
Engraved: Poems
Tupelo Press, 2013
- Winner of the 2011 Snowbound Chapbook Competition from Tupelo Press
Acts of Contortion
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002
- Winner of The Brittingham Prize in Poetry
