Jack Myers, visiting professor Kenan Hall 1226 | 910.962.7863 | myersj@uncw.edu
Background
M.F.A., University of Iowa
B.A., University of Massachusetts
Awards
Violet Crown Award from the Writers League of Texas for The Glowing River: New and Selected Poems, named Best Literary Book of 2001 and a National Poetry Series Selection
Twice granted awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Institute of Letters
Jack Myers, the 2003 Texas Poet Laureate, is a professor of English and former director of the Creative Writing Program at Southern Methodist
University where he has taught poetry writing since 1975, and a former member of the faculty at Vermont College's graduate writing program. He has received Visiting Poet and Poet-in-Residence distinctions from several universities, and has served as poetry editor for Cimarron Review, Fiction International, and, currently, for TEX! He has authored seventeen books of and about poetry, and has published hundreds of individual poems in journals such as American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Esquire, and Poetry.
He has four children and lives with his wife, Thea Temple, who is Executive Director of The Writer's Garret, in Mesquite.
Selected Publications
Routine Heaven, winner of the 2005 Texas Review Poetry Prize
