In Memoriam: UTSA mourns loss of renowned poet Wendy Barker

Barker's Weave: New and Selected Poems, (BkMk Press, 2022), follows seven full-length collections of poetry, the most recent being Gloss, published by Saint Julian Press in 2020. Her collection One Blackbird at a Time was chosen for the John Ciardi Prize and was published by BkMk Press in 2015. Earlier books include her novel in prose poems, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years (runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and released by Del Sol Press in 2009); Poems from Paradise (WordTech, 2005); Way of Whiteness (Wings Press, 2000); Let the Ice Speak (Ithaca House, 1991); and Winter Chickens (Corona Publishing Co., 1990). Barker's sixth chapbook of poems, Those Roads, These Moons, will be published this spring.

Barker's poems and translations have appeared in hundreds of journals, including Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Plume, Rattle, The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Stand, Partisan Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Plume, New Letters, Antioch and Southern Poetry Review.

Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2013. Many poems have been reprinted in various venues, including the Academy of American Poetry site, poets.org. Essays have appeared in such magazines as Poets & Writers and Southwest Review. She has read her poetry at dozens of universities, bookstores, festivals and conferences in the United States, Europe and in India.