Janet Holmes (poet)

Janet Holmes is an American poet and professor.

[1] She taught at Boise State University in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing from 1999[2] through 2019.

[3] She is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The ms of m y kin[4] (Shearsman Books, 2009).

Her poems were published in literary journals including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, MiPoesias, Nimrod, Pleiades, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1995.

Full-length collections Chapbooks Her honors include the Minnesota Book Award[5] and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.