May 1, 2004
Janet's newest collection of poetry Beckoned by the Reckoning is now available from Poetworks Press

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September 12, 2003
Janet's collection: Tickets to a Closing Play has won the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award. For details, click here:



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Feb. 7, 2003
Three of Janet's poems, "Sisters in Stone," "That Day of Red," and "What If the Scalpel Slips?" were recently nominated by Verse Libre Quarterly, Erosha, and Facets Magazine for the 2002 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.

These are Janet's fourth, fifth, and sixth Pushcart nominations. The first two were in 2000 (Gravity and Kimera) and the third was in 2001 (Pedestal Magazine).

For the latest on where Janet has been published, see:
What's New: The Poetry of Janet I. Buck