ShelfLife@Texas

Two former classmates from The University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers’ MFA class of 2004 have won major recognition for their debut poetry collections.  Jessica Garratt was awarded the 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her “Fire Pond,” (University of Utah Press).  And Carrie Fountain received the 2009 National Poetry Series award for her “Burn Lake,” (Penguin Books) which will be released  in early 2010.  The uncanny similarity of their titles is entirely coincidental, each poet having followed a very different trajectory since graduating
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