Sheryl Noethe's poetry and an interview with her are in the current issue of Whitefish Review

Sheryl Noethe, Montana's Poet Laureate

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Length: 29:01

During this program, Sheryl Noethe describes her experiences riding on buses from her hometown of Missoula, Montana, to other Montana cities where she talked with students and teachers about poetry. She also reads a few poems from her Bus Logs. Read the full description.

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Playing: Sheryl Noethe, Montana's Poet Laureate
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Whitefishreview_small Born and raised in Minnesota, Sheryl Noethe attended a high-school alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984).

Now living at the foot of Mt. Jumbo in Missoula, Montana, Noethe is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, and the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press. She has also received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her second poetry collection, The Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection, As Is, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2009.

She has also co-written and published Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community (now in its third edition), which contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing.

Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Poems Across the Big Sky, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart and I Go To the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights.

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Born and raised in Minnesota, Sheryl Noethe attended a high-school alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984).

Now living at the foot of Mt. Jumbo in Missoula, Montana, Noethe is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, and the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press. She has also received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her second poetry collection, The Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection, As Is, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2009.

She has also co-written and published Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community (now in its third edition), which contains 65 writing exercises and more than 400 example poems. It also discusses how to integrate poetry writing into the English class and essential topics such as sound and rhythm, traditional poetic forms, inventing and adapting exercises, revision, and publishing.

Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Poems Across the Big Sky, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart and I Go To the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights.