In the Distance the Unapproachable

Janet McCann

to launch the whole self toward the whirling

center

which even after so many years

of nonexistence,

still pulls us

in.

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Janet McCann has taught at Texas A&M University since 1969.  Journals publishing her poems include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou’wester, New York Quarterly, Tendril, Poetry Australia, and McCall’s.  A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, Janet has  won three chapbook contests, sponsored by Pudding House Publications, Chimera Connections, and Franciscan University Press.  She has co-edited two anthologies, Odd Angles of Heaven (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1994) and Place of Passage (Story Line, 2000).  Her most recent poetry book is Emily’s Dress (Pecan Grove Press, 2004).

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