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Trier Ward

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Trier Ward is a mother, poet, and scientist. Born in Germany, she grew up as an Air Force brat living around the world and now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since late 2015. She performs at several open mics in the area including Voices of the Barrio. Her interests include the arts, social activism, and wildlife rehabilitation.

She began her working life as an engineer for a defense contractor. The job ended due to a crisis of conscience. After several stints working as a chemist. lab manager, environmental scientist, and even a professional winemaker Trier still had not settled on a career. She had written poetry since an early age but had shared it with only a few people. She cared enough about poetry during her early career start an Trier Ward is a mother, poet, and scientist. Born in Germany, she grew up as an Air Force brat living around the world and now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since late 2015. She performs at several open mics in the area including Voices of the Barrio. Her interests include the arts, social activism, and wildlife rehabilitation.

She began her working life as an engineer for a defense contractor. The job ended due to a crisis of conscience. After several stints working as a chemist. lab manager, environmental scientist, and even a professional winemaker Trier still had not settled on a career. She had written poetry since an early age but had shared it with only a few people. She cared enough about poetry during her early career start and stops to earn credits toward a grad school degree in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas while she was pregnant with her first child. It was there she was inspired by poets like Blake, Levertov, Neruda, Hahn, Radnoti, and Celan. She kept writing during the time she was a scientist, and then a mother.

After a divorce from her second husband, at the age of 34, Trier began performing at open mics in the Dallas, Texas, area. It was there she began to share her poetry with a wider audience and discover that it was appreciated. Trier spent a lot of time with the Mad Swirl open mic at the Absinthe Lounge and the Dallas Poetry Slam open mic at Heroes. To the other poets who were at these open mics, the experiences were legendary. Many of her poems were inspired by the time she spent in Dallas.

Trier believes artists are in a unique position to advocate for peace and political non-violence and should take this duty seriously. Trier is an advocate of human rights for everyone, including the right to food, shelter, and clean air and water. In addition, Trier spends her spare time volunteering at Wildlife Rescue of New Mexico, an organization which works to rehabilitate and release injured or orphaned New Mexico wildlife. If you would like to contribute to Wildlife Rescue of New Mexico, please go to: wildliferescuenm.org

Trier is a huge fan of pop music, including Britney Spears, Madonna, George Michael, Michael Jackson, and Rihanna, to name just a few. She has an orange and white cat named Brandi. She adores the red and green chile flavors of New Mexican cuisine. She prefers her eggs sunny side up. She enjoys yoga and nature walks in the Rio Grande bosque. She has four degrees: chemistry, winemaking, environmental science, and nanotechnology. She is an anarchist, a socialist, and she believes in aliens. She has four children: one adult and three teenagers.

What defines Trier’s poetry is not its lyricism or unique style, but a combination of both, which yields an incredible power to evoke bold imagery. She knows the poetic rules and how to break them, moving freely between rhyming and free verse effortlessly, sometimes within the same poem. The beauty of the word is never forgotten, never lost behind layers of cleverness. Each poem is a song unto its own, each syllable carefully crafted to resonate perfectly.

Her debut book, Bruises and Love Bites, addresses love/hate relationships. The dedication in her second book, the Hollowscape, is to the poets of Dallas. Her third book, The Art of Escape, addresses escaping the prisons we build in our minds and spirits. In addition to her books, her poetry has appeared in many online and print journals, including The Nervous Breakdown, The Stygian Lepus, POETiCA REViEW, Bohemia, Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal, Chachalaca Review, Vroom Literary Magazine, Alien Buddha Zine, and Mad Swirl. ...more

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