Christianne Balk

Christianne Balk (born 1953) is an American poet. She graduated in biology with honors from Grinnell College. Her work has appeared in Pequod, Crazy Horse, Sulfur, The Centennial review The Missouri Review, Sonora Review, Prairie Schooner Harper's, and The New Yorker. She taught at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and daughter. Bindweed...shows some of the awkwardness and tentativeness characteristic of younger poets, but it also introduces an artist resonant with talent. Ms. Balk writes poems that stay close to nature, tapping the rhythms of the changing seasons for metaphors of the human life cycle and rounding out nature's powerful processes with the human qualities of joy, loss...