Edward Wright Haile
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I am a full-time poet and writer, with two volumes of poems: Open Not Glass and Here On A Mission; a work of translation: The Oresteia of Aeschylus; and a work of nonfiction: Jamestown Narratives. I live in Champlain, Virginia, where I have spent most of my life. Foreign languages (German, Portuguese, Ancient Greek, Chinese) taught me the love of the word and its precious family of meaning, but lately, I have so fallen in love with English that I neglect all else.
Works ready for publication include: Renapewak (poetic drama, likely to be brought out by the Rappahannock Indian Tribe); Quotations from Myself (just that); You and I (345 love sonnets after discovering around #30 or 40 that the form was not dead or even dated); WIP: Where None Before Hath Stood (poem dealing with Newport's ascent of the James River in May 1607); plus one or two more volumes of poems.
I used to be a musician (flutist), then a rural land surveyor. Nowadays I just do this. Very happy marriage and a son next door who follows me in surveying.
Winning Entry: Gaines’s Mill
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2004, Finalist
