Poetry. Here the intertwined lives of painter and painted are presented in a wide-ranging collection of poems. These urgent, provocative poems depict artists and images so vividly that they draw us to them and demand our participation. A native of the north woods of Minnesota, Francine Sterle attended Oxford University as an undergraduate and holds a B.S. and a master's degree from Bemidji State University, as well as an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her first book, EVERY BIRD IS ONE BIRD, won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize in 2001.
Francine Sterle holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College and has studied writing in a variety of academic and workshop settings. She is the author of Every Bird is One Bird, which won the Editor's Prize from Tupelo Press and was nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.