Anne Becker, Poet
Anne Becker, poet
Anne Becker is the former Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD. Her books include The Good Body (chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2007), The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin (Forest Woods Media, 1996) and Human Animal (Pond Road Press, 2018). For many years she taught at the Writer's Center, and led "Writing the Body," a poetry workshop for those who have experienced life-threatening or chronic illness as patient, caregiver or family member. For 17 years she was senior producer of Watershed Tapes, recording major American and international poets reading their work, including Nobel Laureates Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz and Tomas Transtromer.