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The Farm Wife's Almanac "'Iva's tongue was honey-sweet and stung like a bee,' the poet writes, an apt description of Wagner's own poetic gifts, on full display in The Farm Wife's Almanac. Rich in pathos and humor, this is a collection that embodies the culture from which it was birthed, a true celebration of living close to the land.'" Todd Davis, Author, Native Species and Winterkill 
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 Photo by Rachel Greenberg / Above: Turkey Run SP by Shari Wagner
Shari Wagner is the former Indiana Poet Laureate 2016-2017 and the author of three books of poems: The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana, Evening Chore, and The Farm Wife's Almanac. Her poetry has appeared in The Writers Almanac, American Life in Poetry, North American Review, Shenandoah, The Christian Century, Indiana Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Wabash Watershed, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Wagner has been awarded two Creative Renewal Fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, as well as grants from the Indiana Arts Commission. She lives in Central Indiana and teaches poetry and memoir writing for the Indiana Writers Center and literature for Religion, Spirituality and the Arts , a program of the IUPUI Humanities and the Arts Institute. Starting Fall of 2019 she will be teaching poetry writing for Bethany Seminary's graduate program in theopoetics and writing. Cover painting: "Full Moon Winter Haiku" by John J Domont |
FY20 IAP Grant: Writing Poems About Men & Women from Indiana History
I am deeply appreciative of a 2019-2020 Individual Advancement Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission (an organization which receives funding from the State of Indiana and the National Endowment of the Arts) . This grant has given me support for the research and writing of ten persona poems in the voices of men and women from Indiana history. I have been especially drawn toward historical figures who had a significant impact on our state but who are no longer well known, people such as Mary Bateman Clark, Albion Fellows Bacon, and Kathleen Flossie Bailey. As part of my project I also read some of my persona poems to several online literature classes at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis and talked about my process of research and writing.
I am deeply appreciative of a 2019-2020 Individual Advancement Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission (an organization which receives funding from the State of Indiana and the National Endowment of the Arts) . This grant has given me support for the research and writing of ten persona poems in the voices of men and women from Indiana history. I have been especially drawn toward historical figures who had a significant impact on our state but who are no longer well known, people such as Mary Bateman Clark, Albion Fellows Bacon, and Kathleen Flossie Bailey. As part of my project I also read some of my persona poems to several online literature classes at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis and talked about my process of research and writing.