Borders: Poems by Mary Crow

by Mary Crow

Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Mary Crow, former Colorado Poet Laureate, was raised in Loudonville, Ohio, and educated at the College of Wooster, Indiana University, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. She came west to begin a creative writing and teaching career at Colorado State University. Along with teaching Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry, Women Writers, South American and World Poetry, Crow also served as director of CSU's Creative Writing Program.

Crow's books of poetry include Addicted to the Horizon, I Have Tasted the Apple and Borders and three chapbooks, most recently The High Cost of Living. Her poetry translations include volumes of Jorge Teillier, Roberto Juarroz, Olga Orozco, and an anthology of contemporary Latin American women poets. Among her honors are Poetry Fellowships from the NEA and the Colorado Council on the Arts as well as three Fulbrights and writers’ residencies in Israel, Spain, Czech Republic, Scotland and the U.S.