Cary Waterman
Cary Waterman is the author of When I Looked Back You Were Gone (Holy
Cow! Press), The Salamander Migration (University of Pittsburg), First
Thaw (Minnesota Writers Publishing House), and Dark Lights the Tiger's
Tail (Scopecraft Press). She co-edited the anthology, Minnesota Writes:
Poetry (Milkweed Editions). Her own poems have appeared in a number of
anthologies, and her writing awards include Bush Foundation
Fellowships, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships, and the
Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in Poetry. She teaches at Augsburg
College and at Normandale Community College.
For the Greeks, who had no word for irreversible death, one did not die, one darkened. —Mark Strand