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B. T. Shaw’s poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including AGNI, FIELD, Orion, Poetry Northwest, the Seattle Review, Tin House, and Willow Springs. Shaw teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and at the University of Portland, as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. She has edited the poetry column for The Oregonian for the past ten years. |
Alberto Ríos, the final judge for the 2007 Blue Lynx Prize contest, had this to say about This Dirty Little Heart, Shaw’s first book:
“Soft cedar shaded weighted / strands of light,” these poems: these are poems. Works of immediately evident force, the telling in these poems is everything, and the voice that speaks them is new. The self-referential speaker whispers from the heart, tender and trying to understand what the world serves up: “At your girl’s age // your gender was librarian . . . ” The language is never regular—it is part of the story. These are poems born from what stays with us, from those raw things that are more than memory.”
This Dirty Little Heart will be published by Eastern Washington University Press in Spring 2008. B. T. Shaw lives in Portland, Oregon. |
