Faith Shearin

Born: '1969'

Faith Shearin is the author of five books of poetry: The Owl Question, The Empty House, Moving the Piano, Telling the Bees, and Orpheus Turning. Recent work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Poetry East, and has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of awards from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work also appears in The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poets and Good Poems, American Places. She lives in West Virginia. (Source)

Poems by Faith Shearin

Scurvy by Faith Shearin

April 10, 2021

"All the old // wounds were new, as if / time had undone itself, as if / each injury is permanent, // just waiting to show itself again." – Faith Shearin

Retriever by Faith Shearin

August 15, 2005

"She is his responsible soul / broken free. She is the children he couldn't / come home to made young again." – Faith Shearin