Background
Ehret, Terry was born on November 12, 1955 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Stephen Henry II and Adelaide Beatrice (O'Connor) Ehret.
(Poetry. "Terry Ehret contructs poems that are fearless......)
Poetry. "Terry Ehret contructs poems that are fearless...No matter how dark her themes, she manages to circle back...to reclaim new and widening patterns of light, as dark hair, antlers, corollas of oaks spring from her canvas. It is how she listens to her subjects and finds their form that ultimately stuns the readers. Like Joaquin Miller in "The Heights," she grips the world so hard she hold it in place for a few moments -- and makes it shine" Fran Ringold, Editor of Nimrod. Terry Ehret's LOST BODY is also available from SPD.
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Poetry. Terry Ehret's third collection, LUCKY BREAK, responds to our fractured times with a lyrical blend of levity and gravity, whimsy and horror, like the sculpture that inspired the title poem. From the opening musings on the origins of writing, to the sequence of poems based on the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, to the final lyrics set against the war in Iraq, Ehret reminds us that every catastrophe also opens us to possibilities: new ways of imagining and perceiving our own history, landscape, language, time, and relationships. Here are poems, crafted with intelligence and vision, that speak to this moment, living as we are in a world "at the edge of all our changes." Terry Ehret is one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press. Literary awards for her previous collections include the National Poetry Series, the Commonwealth Club of California Book Award, and the Nimrod/ Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. She has taught writing at San Francisco State and Sonoma State Universities, California College of the Arts, Santa Rosa Junior College, and with the California Poets in the Schools Program. She currently leads private workshops in Sonoma County, California, where she lives with her family.
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Ehret, Terry was born on November 12, 1955 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Stephen Henry II and Adelaide Beatrice (O'Connor) Ehret.
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Stanford University, 1977. Master of Arts in English, San Francisco State University, 1984.
English teacher Notre Dame High School, Salinas, California, 1977-1981, Cathedral High School, San Francisco, 1981-1983, Notre Dame High School, Belmont, California, 1984-1990. Poet, teacher California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco, since 1991. Creative writing teacher Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, 1993-1994, San Francisco State University, 1995-1997.
Writer-on-site Poets and Writers Inc., Oakland, California, 1997. English teacher Santa Rosa (California) Junior College, since 1991. Writer-on-site Oakland Museum of California, 1997, Oakland Public Library., 1997.
Poetry series director SRJC Arts and Lectures committee, Santa Rosa, since 1994. Founder Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Public Collective.
(Poetry. "Terry Ehret contructs poems that are fearless......)
(Poetry. Terry Ehret's third collection, LUCKY BREAK, resp...)
Member California Poets in the Schools, Academy of America Arts.
Married Donald Nicholas Moe, April 7, 1979. Children: Allison, Caitlin, Annelisa.