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Edward Mayes (formerly Edward Kleinschmidt)^[1] (born 1951)^[2] is an American poet and prose writer.^[3]

Life[]

His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, The New Yorker, Poetry,^[1] TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Poetry.

Mayes lives in North Carolina and Cortona, Italy, with his wife, writer Frances Mayes.

Recognition[]

His books have received the Juniper Prize, the Gesù Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, and the Associated Writing Programs Prize. He’s also received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

• Magnetism. Woodside, CA: Hayeck Press, 1987.
• To Remain. Woodside, CA: Hayeck Press, 1990.
• First Language. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press]], 1990.
• Works and Days. Pitts
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  Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes (January 4, 1933 – March 10, 2001) is an American poet and writer.

  His books of poetry include First Language, To Remain, Magnetism, Works and Days, Speed of Life, and Bodysong. He received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

   

  SISTER CAT
  Edward K. Mayes

  Cat stands at the fridge,
  Cries loudly for milk.
  But I’ve filled her bowl.
  Wild cat, I say, Sister,
  Look, you have milk.
  I clink my fingernail
  Against the rim. Milk.
  With down and liver,
  A word I know she hears.
  Her sad miaow. She runs
  To me. She dips
  In her whiskers but
  Doesn’t drink. As sometimes
  I want the light on
  When it is on. Or when
  I saw the woman walking
  toward my house and
  I thought there’s Frances.
  Then looked in the car mirror
  To be sure. She stalks
  The room. She wants. Milk
  Beyond milk. World beyond
  This one, she cries.

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  YOUR TONGUE
  Edward K. Mayes

  What a tongue
  that comes out
  between

  your lips.
  I

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  Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes

  American poet and writer

  Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes (born 29 October 1951) is an American poet and writer.^[1] Mayes' books of poetry include Magnetism, First Language, To Remain, Works and Days, Speed of Life, and Bodysong.

  Biography

  Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes was born in Minnesota.^[2][3]

  Mayes received a BA in English from Saint Mary's College, a Christian Brothers college in Winona, Minnesota. He went on to earn an MA in creative writing from Hollins College in Virginia in 1976.^[3]

  After finishing graduate school, Mayes moved to San Francisco, California.^[3] He began working at Santa Clara University in 1981, where he helped establish the university's Creative Writing Program.^[3] In 1993, he became an associate professor of English and served as the director of the Creative Writing Program.^[4][5]

  Mayes' long time partner is the writer Frances Mayes, whom he met in the mid 1980s.^[4] In 1990, the couple purchased a home in Cortona, Italy