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Jack Myers


Born
in Lynn, Massachusetts, The United States
November 29, 1941

Died
November 23, 2009

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Jack Elliott Myers was an American poet and educator. He was Texas Poet Laureate in 2003, and served on the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas for more than 30 years. He was director of creative writing at SMU from 2001 through 2009. Myers co-founded The Writer's Garret, a nonprofit literary center in Dallas, with his wife, Thea Temple. He published numerous books of and about poetry, and served as a mentor for aspiring writers at SMU and as part of the writers' community and mentoring project of The Writer's Garret. ...more

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The Portable Poetry Workshop

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Dictionary of Poetic Terms

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The Memory of Water

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The Delco Files: 101 storie...

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New American Poets of the 80's

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