Selected Poems: 2000-2020

Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize-2020by Meadowlark Bookscreated to celebrate the voices of our eraThis Selected group of poems illuminates some harsh realities regarding identity. There are poems that smack a consciousness sideways. The poems have a real grit to them. For the reader each poem will be an eye-opening experience. Poet/Professor Stanley E. Banks Blue Beat Syncopation (Bookmark Press) JC Mehta is an interdisciplinary artist poet author of several books and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Much of their work is informed by space place and ancestry. Mehta has served as the Editor in Chief of Crab Creek Review and has been awarded a number of art and research fellowships including a First Peoples Fund fellowship and Eccles Centre Visiting fellowship at the British Library. Poetry-in-residency posts have taken Mehta to Crazy Horse Memorial the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Britain and Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington DC. Book awards include gold at the IPPY Awards Book Excellence Awards and Reader Views Literary Awards.