Human Being

by Jack Myers

Human Being is the 1998 winner of the Rancho Loco Press Texas Poet's Chapbook Series, an annual statewide contest established to publish the finest work of poets living in, or publishing in, Texas. The book is a signed, numbered limited edition printed on bamboo-laid paper. Original cover art is by Nguyen Thi Hop. Poems included in Human Being were published in Poetry, The Pittsburgh Quarterly Review, and The Harvard Advocate.

24 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 1998

About the author

Jack Elliott Myers was an American poet and educator. He was Texas Poet Laureate in 2003, and served on the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas for more than 30 years. He was director of creative writing at SMU from 2001 through 2009. Myers co-founded The Writer's Garret, a nonprofit literary center in Dallas, with his wife, Thea Temple. He published numerous books of and about poetry, and served as a mentor for aspiring writers at SMU and as part of the writers' community and mentoring project of The Writer's Garret.