You Good Thing

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As a book of nontraditional sonnets,You Good Thing will excite readers interested in the sonnet form.

This newest collection meditates on the idea of death with a living, active language and an unexpected playfulness.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Wier's work reflects that city's way of processing death and life through music and art.

a long-awaited title.

While aesthetically different, Wier's work reflects the influence of her long-time partnership with the poet James Tate.

Wier has established a loyal readership through teaching in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, connecting her to hundreds of former students across the country who are now teaching, writing, running reading series, and working in bookstores.

Co-founder of Factory Hollow Press, Wier participates in and influences the thriving small press poetry community in Western Massachusetts around Pilot Books press and Flying Object gallery.

Wier co-founded and co-directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action and The Juniper Summer Writing Institute, connecting her readily to a young group of poets in MFA programs.

Author Bio

Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005, 2006 SFSU Poetry Center Book Award), Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002), and Voyages in English, (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). Also among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books, 1999). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. In 2005 she held the Rubin Distinguished Chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, The Fairytale Review, Hollins Critic, jubilat, New American Writing, slope and Volt, among other magazines. She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars and directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. Each June she teaches a poetry workshop for the Juniper Summer Institute. Her editing work includes publishing limited edition chapbooks and broadsides with Factory Hollow Press, North Amherst, Massachusetts, a small independent press she co-edits with Emily Pettit and Guy Pettit. Along with James Haug and James Tate she edits the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Series for poetry.