About the Author

ED MEEK writes poetry, fiction, articles, and book reviews. High Tide is his fourth book of poems. Luck, a collection of his short stories, came out in 2017. He has been published in The Sun, The Paris Review, The North American Review, Cream City Review, The Boston Globe Magazine, and NPR's Cognoscenti, among others. He teaches creative writing at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, helps adults prepare for the high school equivalency exam, and in his spare time, walks his dog Mookie.

Reviews

In "On the Outer Cape in August," meteorites are "flaming out like dreams at dawn." In "Hunting Mushrooms with Mina," "stars colonize the Big Sky." When Ed Meek isn't looking up, he's noticing the "Asian woman - all angles," playing "Paint It Black" "underneath the street" on her violin as the train approaches the station, and he thinks of all the "artists, musicians, poets" we'll never notice or even know of, unless we're paying attention, even when we're waiting for the train. Is it an overstatement to suggest that one function of poetry is to help us learn to see? When the subject is Ed Meek's work, I think it's a simple fact. --Bill Littlefield, Author of Prospect and Take Me Out, Host of NPR's Only a GameEd Meek's poems pull us in with such clarity that you don't feel the pain at first, almost like a painting you need to study until you see what's waiting in the shadows, that scarred figure, its history. --Nina Rubinstein Alonso, Editor of Constellations, a Journal of Poetry and FictionIf you are hungry for a fine feast of poetry, Ed Meek will fill your plate with delicious poems. His newest poetry book is a trifecta of lyric, narrative, and nature poems. In "How to Make Meatballs," the end product is not what one would expect. In "Miss Maloney," fifth grade tough guys set out to break a teacher. Every poem in this carefully crafted volume is well worth reading. Who could ask for more? --Zvi A. Sesling, Brookline, MA Poet Laureate, Editor and Publisher of Muddy River Poetry Review, author of War Zones and The Lynching of Leo Frank