"Poets often explore the mind/body connection through the medium of words-how love, parenthood, and simple acts such as folding paper airplanes become the lens through which we determine the value-the size-of human existence. Poems too small to read? I think not! Award-winning poet Jeremy Downes's infinitely large volume of obser-vations, cries from the heart, and wordplay gives us space to savor-from the tiniest moment to the most expansive consideration-what it is that poetry gives us." - Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us
Author Biography:
Sometimes you might say, "That poet has an impressive catalog of poems, and so decorated with awards ... my 'ole my. Jeremy M. Downes is one of those poets. "The Bicycle Accident," SPSM&H #20 (1992). "The Book of Lot," Third Prize, Murphy Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007 Prize Poem Anthology. "Bottle the Sun," Third Prize, Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award 2010. Möbius, the Poetry Magazine, January 2011. "Flight," First Prize, Donald D. Dungey Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest 1998. Encore: 1998 Prize Poem Anthology. "The gecko with her name across its tail," Möbius, the Poetry Magazine (2008). "Kia Writes the Microwaves," Third Prize, Arizona State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS Contest 2006. Encore: 2006 Prize Poem Anthology. "Kudzu Harp," Möbius, the Poetry Magazine (2008). "The Muse at Tsavo," Möbius, the Poetry Magazine (2008) "Rabbit Watches," Third Prize, Morton D. Prouty, Jr., Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest 1999. Encore: 1999 Prize Poem Anthology. "Sirens," Second Prize, New York Poetry Forum Award, NFSPS Contest 2006. Encore: 2006 Prize Poem Anthology. "Vilas Zoo in Winter," Third Prize, Prouty Memorial Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007 Prize Poem Anthology. "The Woman Who Borrowed the Sun," Third Prize, Nebraska State Poetry Society Award, NFSPS Contest 2007. Encore: 2007 Prize Poem Anthology. In addition, grateful acknowledgment is made to New Dawn Unlimited Press and the Alabama State Poetry Society, which published several of these poems in Dark Village Haiku, the winner of the 2007 Morris Memorial Chapbook Award. We are proud to have him publish with us.
