 | Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems Afaa Michael Weaver is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer : The Indian Pond Poems ; My Father's Geography ; The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 ; The Government of Nature , winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ; and City of Eternal Spring , winner of the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award. He is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors. In 1998, he became the first Elder of the Cave Canem Foundation. |
