Wendy Barker published fifteen collections of verse. Her poems appeared regularly in Poetry magazine, the Southern Review, and other literary journals. At the time of her death in 2023, she was poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she taught since 1982.Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparative literature and the Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio.Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

"Devoted to precision of craft as well as greatest heart, Wendy Barker wrote with immense care and affection for this world, her students, language, and the bright, unexpected hope that well-shaped poetry offers." - Naomi Shihab Nye"These poems collect readily into a relaxed but constant liminality, all moments tilted toward joy but with an unnerving undercurrent of what it has taken to earn their modicum of happiness." - Alberto Ríos"Barker's wide-ranging, keenly observed poems enable us to see her life and times more fully. They are a sustained literary achievement, a hard-won clarification and expansion of experience." - Edward Hirsch

Wendy Barker published fifteen collections of verse. Her poems appeared regularly in Poetry magazine, the Southern Review, and other literary journals. At the time of her death in 2023, she was poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she taught since 1982.Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparative literature and the Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio.Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

"Devoted to precision of craft as well as greatest heart, Wendy Barker wrote with immense care and affection for this world, her students, language, and the bright, unexpected hope that well-shaped poetry offers." - Naomi Shihab Nye"These poems collect readily into a relaxed but constant liminality, all moments tilted toward joy but with an unnerving undercurrent of what it has taken to earn their modicum of happiness." - Alberto Ríos"Barker's wide-ranging, keenly observed poems enable us to see her life and times more fully. They are a sustained literary achievement, a hard-won clarification and expansion of experience." - Edward Hirsch

Wendy Barker published fifteen collections of verse. Her poems appeared regularly in Poetry magazine, the Southern Review, and other literary journals. At the time of her death in 2023, she was poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she taught since 1982.Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparative literature and the Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio.Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

"Devoted to precision of craft as well as greatest heart, Wendy Barker wrote with immense care and affection for this world, her students, language, and the bright, unexpected hope that well-shaped poetry offers." - Naomi Shihab Nye"These poems collect readily into a relaxed but constant liminality, all moments tilted toward joy but with an unnerving undercurrent of what it has taken to earn their modicum of happiness." - Alberto Ríos"Barker's wide-ranging, keenly observed poems enable us to see her life and times more fully. They are a sustained literary achievement, a hard-won clarification and expansion of experience." - Edward Hirsch