With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points.
She lives in Austin, Texas, with her growing collection of found butterflies..
Her poems and essays have appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
In 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature.
Michener Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Yaddo.
She has received scholarships and fellowship support from the James A.
Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Her first book of poems, Bright Specimen , was inspired by the Billie L.
About author(s): Julie Poole was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.
Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the largest herbaria in the Southwestern United States, Bright Specimen weaves together a written index through the harmony of botanical wonder.
Inspired by the Billie L.
Each poem creates an individual cataloged world through which to explore the body, sexuality, strength, and a devout refusal to admit the separation between humans and nature.
Through poems spread delicately across the page, interspersed with images of the pressed flowers themselves, Poole\'s poetry gives voice to a meditative expression of flora.
With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points
