Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet and literature scholar whose new book of poetry, Work Is Love Made Visible, was released March 1, 2009 by West End Press. (Photo by La Floreani; Tee shirt by Dwelling Spaces.) Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a native Oklahoman returned home after twenty years to study for her PhD in American Literature and to grow good tomatoes. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma, with her husband, an engineering professor; they have a combined family of three sons, all between the ages of 17 and 19. Her mother and grandmother live just down the road. She has participated in po- etry readings and workshops for more than 20 years, including repeat performances as a founding member of the Woody Guthrie Poets at the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma. Other venues in- clude Telluride Institute’s Native American Writers Program; The Taos Poetry Circus Invitational Reading; Red Dirt Book Festival; Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, C.W. Post Poetry Center at LIU; New York State Writer