Richard Jarrette

Richard Jarrette is a American poet whose books include Strange Antlers, published by Parlor Press's Free Verse Editions imprint. Earlier collections include Beso the Donkey, which won a 2011 Gold Medal from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association for Poetry. Jarrette spent formative years in Los Angeles and the Southern Appalachian Highlands of western North Carolina, and later lived in Central and Southern California. He is a retired psychotherapist who spent about forty-five years in that work. He writes a monthly poetry column for VOICE Magazine in Santa Barbara. Advance praise for his books came from W.S. Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, Joseph Stroud, and Sam Hamill.