The Harmonist at Nightfall

"In poems that dazzle with their imagery and music . . . Wagner shows us that right here in Indiana, in this particular spot, we are part of the astonishing story of humankind on earth. This is a thrilling collection full of sleigh bells mixed with thunder."
                    Maura Stanton, author of Immortal Sofa

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 two books of poems: The Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems of Indiana and Evening Chore. Her next book, The Farm Wife's Almanac, is forthcoming in Spring 2019 by Cascadia Publishing House. 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.
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