Georgia Connection:
Rome
Bio:
Sandra Meek has lived in Rome, Georgia since 1996. Three times named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, she has published six books of poems, including Still (Persea Books, 2020), named a “New & Noteworthy Poetry Book” by The New York Times Book Review. Other titles include An Ecology of Elsewhere and Road Scatter, also from Persea Books, and Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she teaches creative writing at Berry College.
Poem in the Parks: “Still Life with Bloodroot”
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Audio recording of Sandra Meek reading her poetry trail poem “Still Life with Blood Root”
