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Jim Harrisonmagazine with fellow poet Dan Gerber, and earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2007, he was elected into the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Thirteenth United States Poet Laureate (20042006) Ted Koosergold medal recognition for autobiographical writing. He is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, nine chapbooks and special editions. He lives with his wife Kathleen in Nebraska. Naomi Shihab Nyeis a poet, children's book author, essayist, and translator.Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. She earned her BA from Trinity University in San Antonio and is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes. Nye is the recipient of numerous honors including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Witter Bynner Foundation. She has spent more than 40 years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and is the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
A wonderful, rewarding book. -Philadelphia Inquirer These little gems prove that less is often more. -Library Journal There are poems on the natural world, aging, dying, friendship, love, and eros. There is abundant humor. . . . There also is distilled wisdom. -Houston Chronicle So what we have here is a small book of finely etched verse by two experienced poets. It is something that many readers will want to carry around with them and dip into on occasion. Braided Creek is a vademecum or field guide for the soul. -Bloomsbury Review This book is superb. . . . Simple in its language, spare in its style, Braided Creek presents dozens of short poems that resonate with truth, pain and radiance. Grudgingly acknowledging aging and illness, the verses here also clutch tightly to moments of good cheer, of life lived with spirit and grit and determination. -Kansas City Star Here's a book of glorious, intimate tidbits . . . filled with such small yet expansive moments, perfectly defined. -Commercial Appeal For those who have ears to hear, infinity hums in the taut lines and compact images of this conversation in poetry. Seamless, poignant, and profound, Braided Creek is a book worth listening to time and again. -Wichita Eagle [Braided Creek] unfolds like a Japanese kaiseki feast, a procession of delectable morsels. It is tempting to gobble them all at once, but a slow savoring leaves one with a sense of satiety and celebration. -Foreword They sound betimes like up-to-date imagists or haiku poets, pungent rural epigrammatists out of Jonathan Williams's Blues & Roots/Rue & Bluets and Wendell Berry's Sayings & Doings, or just two crusty old codgers. Their conversation always repays eavesdropping. -Booklist Braided Creek smooths together two delicate and taut voices, both singing in tune to a common good, a loftier goal, to be picked up like the poetry gauntlet thrown. -onthetown Both Harrison and Kooser show a 'coming of wisdom with time.' Kooser has been diagnosed with cancer, which may in part account for the intensity of the language and the sweeping philosophical stance of these quiet poems by two gifted men. -Rocky Mountain News
