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Jack Webb

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Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

Website

http://bordervoices.com/bordervoices/Welcome.html

Genre

Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Rilke Auden, Shakespeare, Milton, Yeats, Bishop

Member Since

June 2008

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Jack Webb is founder-director of the 15-year-old Border Voices Poetry Project, which has flown famous poets into San Diego since 1993 for an annual Poetry Fair.
Jack is also host of a weekly TV show featuring some of the most respected poets in the world (Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Sandra Cisneros, etc.) working with San Diego students.
As part of his preparation for serving the cause of poetry, Jack earned an MFA in Creative Writing from SDSU. But he also values his long experience as an investigative reporter, and later as an editor, for The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Best of Border Voices, a 2007 book edited by Jack, was honored as Best Poetry Anthology of 2007 by the “National Best Books Awards.” It contains select Jack Webb is founder-director of the 15-year-old Border Voices Poetry Project, which has flown famous poets into San Diego since 1993 for an annual Poetry Fair.
Jack is also host of a weekly TV show featuring some of the most respected poets in the world (Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Sandra Cisneros, etc.) working with San Diego students.
As part of his preparation for serving the cause of poetry, Jack earned an MFA in Creative Writing from SDSU. But he also values his long experience as an investigative reporter, and later as an editor, for The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Best of Border Voices, a 2007 book edited by Jack, was honored as Best Poetry Anthology of 2007 by the “National Best Books Awards.” It contains selected poems and essays from earlier Border Voices anthologies, 15 of which have been published since 1994.
In addition to its annual Poetry Fair and weekly TV show, Border Voices teaches the art of verse to thousands of K-12 students.
Jack is especially proud of the impact Border Voices and poetry have had on San Diego families and students. This includes:

 1. Spectacular increases in student scores on standardized
 tests.

 2. An explosion of creativity in homes throughout the city.
 As one proud dad said, “You people at Border Voices
 have transformed not only our daughter, but
 our whole family. We thank you!”

Among the dozens of poets who have appeared at Border Voices fairs are Ireland’s Eavan Boland; former U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins; Adrienne Rich and Amy Gerstler; and Kay Ryan and W.S. Merwin.
OTHER AWARDS: The Border Voices TV show has won three international awards for its weekly TV show. These include a Telly Award, a Videographer Award, and an honorable mention in The Communicator competition.
“To give you some idea of the level of competition: to win a Telly Award, Border Voices had to successfully compete with 10,000 entries from all 50 states and many foreign countries,” said Richard Harrison, producer-director for ITV, which is part of the San Diego County Office of Education.
“Previous winners included Sesame Workshop, Turner Classic Movies and Time Warner Cable, so you can see Border Voices is doing something right,” Harrison added.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 25 ratings · 4 reviews · 13 distinct works

	border voices by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Voices / 11: A Book of Poetry By San Diego Students and Internationally Acclaimed Writers by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sandra Cisneros, Robert Creeley 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Border Voices: Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Wisdom of Kids 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Dreamed Of (Border Voices, Vol. 17) by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margaret Dickerson 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Voices: An Anthology by Major Poets and San Diego Students by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kris Lindblad, Marilyn Chin (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Riffs: Unfolding Worlds (Border Voices, Volume 14) by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Voices 1999: An Anthology by Major Poets and San Diego Students by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author), W.S. Merwin, Eavan Boland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Voices 2000 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Voices III: An Anthology by Major Poets and San Diego Students really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing in the Sacred Cave by Jack Webb (Goodreads Author), Kay Ryan, Li-Young Lee really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jack said: " Sebald's approach validates my own approach to writing, insofar as I needed validation. It also gives me some new ideas about how to use these techniques ...more "

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