Alice Templeton has published a poetry collection The Infinite Field (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2024) and a chapbook Archaeology (Finishing Line Press, 2008, winner of the New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry). She is also the author of a scholarly book on Adrienne Rich's poetics and articles on literary theory. Originally from Tennessee, Templeton lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other poems on the web by Alice Templeton:
"Song beside the Barn Wall"

Alice Templeton's Website.

About The Infinite Field:

"Written at the crossroads of reverie and history, Alice Templeton's poems are at turns both elegiac and jubilant as they move through the rural and urban landscapes of Tennessee and California. Muscadine vines, loosestrife, hobblebush, and California jasmine punctuate these deftly revealed pastorals. THE INFINITE FIELD is slow poetry at its best. Fully embodied, the poet returns home and takes her final leave, reminding us that we are 'slips of the sequential tongue, confounding our biographies.'"
—Rebecca Black

"Alice Templeton's poems in THE INFINITE FIELD possess a dreamlike beauty, haunted--or I should say inhabited--by memories of childhood, family, spiritual community, and the culverts, creeks, and rivers of Tennessee. I think of these poems as quilts, arrangements of the remnants of the past put into fresh and surprising combinations: No matter where they go, they carry the texture and warmth of home."
—D. A. Powell

"Intimate and engaging, these poems by Alice Templeton hold the reader with sure lines that never get fussy, never spill over aesthetically or emotionally. If the 'air has grown rare and precise,' so has the body of American poetry, enriched by these classic verses. Templeton's varied lyrics are companions we can carry with us to remind us of what poetry at its best can be."
—Marilyn Kallet