Sandra Meek is the author of six books of poems, most recently Still (Persea Books, 2020), named a New & Noteworthy Poetry Book by The New York Times Book Review. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she has three times been awarded Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry and twice the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry. Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College, Meek is also poetry editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum.
Poetry
July/Aug 2022
The Scarlet Macaw
The Kenyon Review · Two Poems and a Note by Sandra Meek A fable: There was a valley, the clearest stream, ancestral trees we nested. All was emerald, then, all […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2022
Pegasus and Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
The Kenyon Review · Two Poems and a Note by Sandra Meek To you swimming my father’s realm what is visible of the medusa pulses in fuchsia neon as four-leaf […]
Nonfiction
July/Aug 2022
The Scarlet Macaw: A Note
The Kenyon Review · Two Poems and a Note by Sandra Meek To see a scarlet macaw in flight, long tail feathers fanned out, streamlined scarlet body brilliantly set off […]
Poetry
Winter 2007
Fracture and Regelation Theory
Where species overlap (sympatric, simpático), songs evolve and diverge, no I without you distant, or strange—so this fallen male I hear (a female would be nearly silent, a mere wing […]
Poetry
Summer 2002
Reentering Atmosphere
Evening's laddered with ash, jet-line of pale unraveling silk: primitive web, all axis and latitude. There's democracy in entropy. Which is why there are so many flights all ending in […]
Poetry
Spring 1998
Evolution
Lambertsbaii, South Africa, 1992 A girl scoops up a barnacle still sealed, sleek as a liver, glossy-black. Her fingers trace its ear-like curve, wrench it open. Down the beach, shell-pink […]