Janet
Buck has a Ph.D. in English and teaches writing and literature at the college
level. Her poetry, poetics, and fiction have appeared in A Writers Choice,
The Melic Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, The Rose & Thorn, 2River
View, Southern Ocean Review, Urban Spaghetti, Perihelion, Mind Fire, San
Francisco Salvo, Apples & Oranges, Ceteris Paribus, In Motion, Pogonip,
Peshekee Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Suisun Valley Review, The Red Booth
Review, The Poetry Kit, Miserere, Niederngasse, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, The
Horsethiefs Journal, salon DArt, Pif, The Dragonfly Review, Morpo,
Recursive Angel, Big Bridge, Eclectica, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In
1998, 1999, and 2000, she has won numerous creative writing awards and been a
featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Poetry Today Online, Vortex, Conspire, Poetry
Cafe, Dead Letters, the storyteller, Poetry Heaven, Athens City Times, Poetik
License, 3:00 AM e-zine, Poetry Super Highway, Carved in Sand, Poetry
Magazine.com, and Beachfire Gathering--a publication of Chiron Press. Two
of Bucks poems have been nominated for this years Pushcart Priz e in
Poetry and she is a recent recipient of The H.G. Wells Award for Literary
Excellence.
In December 1999, Newtons Baby Press released her first print collection of
poetry entitled Calamitys Quilt: http://www.newtonsbaby.com/calamity.html
Janet is one of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the One Heart, One World
Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000. Her
poem Acrylic Thighs will be translated into five languages and paired with
original artwork. The tour will travel to France, Australia, Vietnam,
Brazil, and Japan.
Janets first e-book of poetry, entitled Reefs We Live, is now available at
Word Wrangler Publishing: http://www.wordwrangler.com.
_Desideratum's Doggie Dish_ was just released today by Word Wrangler Publishing.
Here is the link to the ordering site and a sample piece of humor: http://www.wordwrangler.com/desideratum.html