Description

"Scapes" won the 2001 Edward Eakin Memorial Poetry Award winner, presented by the Poetry Society of Texas. "Scapes" is a compilation of poems from award-winning Texas poet Michael Baldwin. His work has been published in a number of poetry journals such as "Commonweal," "Louisiana Literature," "Touchstone," and "New Texas." An issue of "Illya's Honey" containing his poems was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He won the Violet Newton Poetry Prize in 2000 and his poetry has been featured on the national radio show, "The Romantic Hours." Baldwin is a longtime member of the Poetry Society of Texas and is a member of Texas' oldest poetry organization, The Fort Worth Poetry Society. He has been a juried poet of the Houston Poetry Festival and has presented poetry workshops at the Langdon Literary Arts Festival.