Terry Blackhawk, Founder of Detroit's InsideOut Literary Arts Project, received the 2003 John Ciardi Prize for Escape Artist, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod International, and a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship. Kirkus Reviews named One Less River, her fifth full-length collection, a Top 2019 Indie title. She has recent work in Negative Capability, Dunes Review, Paterson Literary Review, Vox Populi, and Brevity.

Other poems by Terry Blackhawk in Verse Daily:
April 27, 2020:   "She Awakens in a Town by the Sea" "The street, milling all night. Old lace..."
March 20, 2012:   "The Burn" "I saw it once in a sycamore..."
December 25, 2007:   "A Blessing" "David says his soul..."
March 2, 2004:  "Leda" "All day long I twisted..."
December 30, 2003:  "After Years of Ethnographic Research, Professor Jones Retires to the Tropics" "Don't get me wrong...."
September 7, 2003:  "Escape Artist" "A crow does not merely open its beak to cry..."

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About Maumee, Maumee:

"In her calling out to the Maumee River, Terry Blackhawk reverts to the site of memory where her late-life lover went to paint over and over. In their encounters with art, these poems seem to echo an ancient song, and the river becomes a geography of emotion, mystery, and grief. When the bridge asks, 'Where do you come from?' I love this poet's answer: 'I won't know until I cross you,' she replies."
—Dunya Mikhail