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Jane Mead

Jane Mead
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Jane Mead

Born: 13 August 1958 • Died: 8 September 2019

Jane Mead was born on August 13, 1958, in Baltimore. Mead authored several poetry collections, including To the Wren, Collected & New Poems (Alice James Books, 2019); World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books, 2016), which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and long-listed for the National Book Award; Money Money Money | Water Water Water (Alice James Books, 2014); and The Lord and the General Din of the World (Sarabande Books, 1996). Mead was the recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. She died on September 8, 2019. (Source)

Poems by Jane Mead

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I Have Been Living by Jane Mead

September 8, 2026
“Sometimes, to get back to land / is the worst thing a person can do.” — Jane Mead
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Seventy Feet from the Magnolia Blossom by Jane Mead

September 8, 2025
“He is carrying / a heavy load.” — Jane Mead
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Walking, Blues by Jane Mead

July 9, 2011
"The voice / said walk or die, I / walked,—the train // and the voice all / blurry." — Jane Mead