Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Word Works Washington Prize. With seamless craft and lyricism, Frannie Lindsay elevates personal grief to a universal level. Through the natural world, she invites "mayweed, earnest as milkmaids" to flood the valley of death. Lindsay offers the reader light, often surprisingly warm, in the chill darkness of death. Cover art by Deborah Mayhall.

Author City: BELMONT, MA USA

Frannie Lindsay, of Belmont, Massachusetts, won the 2009 Word Works Washington Prize for her full-length poetry manuscript, MAYWEED. Lindsay's two previous books are also prize winners: Lamb won the 2006 Perugia Press Intro Award and was runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press) was selected for the 2004 May Swenson Award. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Field, The Yale Review, and many others. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's Writer's Almanac. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa and is also a classical pianist. Lindsay has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony.

Reviews and Other Links
Sandra Beasley at Ron Slate's On the Seawall
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Amanda Auchter @ Pebble Lake Review