Poet Frances
Payne Adler is the author of five books: two poetry collections, Making of a Matriot (Red Hen Press) and Raising The Tents (Calyx); and three
collaborative poetry-photography books and social acion art exhibitions with photographer
Kira Carrillo Corser --When the Bough
Breaks: Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction (NewSage Press); Struggle
to Be Borne; (San Diego State University Press) and Home Street Home (Red Cross) -- that have shown in galleries,
universities, and state capitol buildings across the country. Their exhibition
"A Matriot's Dream: Health Care For All" showed on Capitol Hill in
the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.
Adler's latest
exhibition is "Dare I Call You Cousin," about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, in collaboration with Israeli artists, photographer Michal Fattal and
videographer Yossi Yacov.
Adler
also co-edited Fire and Ink: An Anthology
of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press), with Debra Busman
and Diana Garcia, which won the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year Award for
Anthologies.
Her
other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Award, a
California State Senate Award for Artistic and Social Collaboration, and the
New Millennium Obama Award. She was a finalist for the Western State Book
Award, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Adler’s
poems and prose have appeared in Poetry
International, Women’s Review of Books, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Calyx,
Fiction International, Exquisite Corpse, Bridges, Centennial Review, and Blood To Remember: American Poets on the
Holocaust, among others.
Adler is
Professor Emerita and founder of the Creative Writing & Social Action
Program at California State University Monterey Bay. She now lives in Portland,
Oregon.
