Barbara Lydecker Crane writes both light and serious poems, as well as some that land in between. Her work has been included in dozens of print journals including American Arts Quarterly, Atlanta Review, Blue Unicorn, Comstock Review, First Things, Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Measure, Rattle, Think, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. A resident of Somerville, MA, Barb is also an artist. Formerly a professional one, her landscape quilts are in public and private collections including Cambridge Savings Bank, the National Quilt Museum, Mass. General Hospital, and Mt. Auburn Hospital.

Books

You Will Remember Me (Able Muse Press, 2023)
BackWords Logic (Local Gems Press, 2017)
Alphabetricks (Daffydowndilly Press, 2013)
Zero Gravity (White Violet Press, 2012)

Poetry Online

“Love Refrains” Rattle, finalist for the 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize
“Painting Henry,” Ekphrastic Review
“Abecedarian for T***p,” New Verse News
“Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight,” Ekphrastic Review
“My Fault Lines,” Light
“Sonnet Insurance,” Light
“The Opera Box,” Valparaiso Poetry Review
“On an Off Day,” Light
“My Block of Time,” Panoply
“Love Refrains,” Rattle
“Two Limericks,” Light
“Conjuring a Son,” The Writer’s Almanac
“Don’t Think Twice,” Light
“The Sound of One Hand Flapping,” Light
“If Dickinson Tried a Computer,” Light
“Death by a Nose,” Light

Anthologies

The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
Last Call: The Anthology of Beer, Wine & Spirits Poetry (World Enough Writers, 2018)
Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century (Dartmouth College Press, 2014)
Let the Clock Run Wild (Generation Books, 2014)
Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013)
Rhyme & PUNishment (Local Gems Poetry Press, 2012)
The Great American Poetry Show (The Muse Media, 2010)
Home (Eden River Press, 2008)

Awards

Rattle Poetry Prize, Finalist: 2017, 2019
Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, Winner: 2011; honorable mention, 2018; Second Place: 2019
Atlanta Review International Merit Award: 2017
Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, Laureate’s Choice Award: 2014, 2016
Foley Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention: 2011