Clint Frakes has forged a new style of writing by fusing the seemingly disparate modalities of spirituality and literary discourse into poems of unique utterance. He received his doctorate in English with emphasis in creative writing from the University of Hawaii and is a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute as well as the Northern Arizona University graduate writing program. His interview with Allen Ginsberg (2001) is available through Elik Press, as well as part of the anthology, "Spontaneous Mind" (Harper-Collins 2001). His numerous publications in North America, Europe, Australia and Argentina testify to the universality of his poetry. When not writing, Clint works as a free-lance editor, ghost writer and wilderness guide in Sedona Arizona, specializing in pilgrimage-oriented tours to local sacred sites. Clint received the 2008 Pudding House Poetry Prize for his upcoming collection of poems, "The Aching Unrest of Spheres", soon to be published by Pudding House Press. He was also selected by former American Poet Laureate, Mark Strand for Meridian Press' Best New Poets of 2008. He is also currently working on a collection of lyrical poems. More about this writer can be found by following the links provided below. PoetWorks Press is pleased to have selected this exciting new author as the recipient of the 2008 Josephine Darner Poetry Award and we look forward to the publication of a collection of Clint Frakes poetry which will be released in 2009.
---Bonita Sutterby
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