Chera Hammons
HPPR Poets on the Plains, Featured PoetChera Hammons is a winner of the Southwest Book Award through PEN Texas and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award through the Texas Institute of Letters. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and formerly served as writer-in-residence at West Texas A&M University. Her work, which is rooted in love for the natural world, appears in Baltimore Review, Pleiades, Poetry, Rattle, The Southern Review, The Sun, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere. She lives on the windswept prairies of the Texas Panhandle. In her free time, she enjoys reading, birdwatching, spending time with her horses and donkeys, and caring for her houseplant collection, which is slowly but surely taking over her entire living space. “Apocalypse Coffee” can be found in the 2020 book Maps of Injury. More information can be found at www.cherahammons.com.
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Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. The wind is blowing, too, as it nearly always does across the Llano Estacado. Today, I’ll be sharing a poem about wind written by someone who knows it well: Lubbock, Texas-based poet Curtis Bauer. -
Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. I’m sharing a poem with you today by fellow Texas poet Katherine Hoerth. -
Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. I’m sharing a poem with you today by former Texas Panhandle resident Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Though she doesn’t live here anymore, this place is still an important part of her work, which often calls back to her time here on the High Plains. -
Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. I’m so happy to share a poem with you today by fellow Texas Panhandle poet Seth Wieck. -
Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from the Texas Panhandle, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s such a privilege to share one of my poems with you.My poetry collections have received awards through PEN Texas, the Writer’s League of Texas, and the Texas Institute of Letters.
