2008 Speakers
Barbara Crooker
Poet Barbara Crooker has published a number of books and chapbooks in addition to her several hundred widely read and widely lauded poems. Crooker's first full-length book, Radiance (2005), won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition. With a rich and often painful past, Crooker speaks in her work to themes such as loss, disability, and enduring love. She lives in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania.