num_pages: 128
description: Bill Garten is winner of the Margaret Ward Martin Prize for Creative Writing and The Emerson Prize for Poetry. He has published poetry in hundreds of literary journals and magazines across the United States. Bill is author of two books of poetry, Black Snow and Red Rain, both published by Cork Hill Press. He has also been anthologized in Wild Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999, And Now the Magpie, a selection of winning entries of the West Virginia Writers' Annual Awards Competition and What The Mountains Yield, a collection from West Virginia Writers. As quoted in the literary journal Rattle #9, poetry for the 21st Century, Bill said this about the art of writing poetry: "I take pictures with my brain. This is where my poetry begins - the expression of what I witness and how it impacts me. In my walks I am searching. Stopping to be filled. It's like cooking. Throwing in a little laughter. A touch of meaning. A bit of sorrow and a pinch of realization. Sensitive stirring and I'm done."
language: English
title: Black Snow
titlecomplete: Black Snow
publisher: Cork Hill Pr