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Dixie Partridge

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Dixie Lee Henderson Partridge grew up with seven siblings on an Afton, Wyoming farm homesteaded with her great-grandfather. Stories rooted in that childhood make up many of the poems of her two published books, Deer in the Haystacks (1984), and Watermark (1991), which received the national Eileen W. Barnes Award for a book of poetry by a woman over forty. Dixie’s poetry has won several awards and is widely published in national and regional journals and anthologies; she is working on two additional book manuscripts. Dixie earned a degree in English from Brigham Young University and studied in Northwest writing workshops. She has edited poetry for a River Writing anthology and currently serves as the poetry editor of two journals. She and her husband Jerry have raised their six children in Richland, Washington, near the Columbia River. Much of Dixie’s work carries a strong sense of place and history and a tone of emotional or spiritual change, displacement, or discovery.
Dixie Lee Henderson Partridge, Dixie L. Partridge, Dixie Lee Partridge, Norberto Guinaldo
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Residence: Richland, WA Contact Information: 1817 Marshall Ct. Richland WA 99352 [This data provided by the author on April 25, 2003]
1943-07-06
Afton, Wyoming
BYU, Northwest Writers Workshops
Partridge offers a strong sense of place, history, and family. Her poems glow with a farmer's wary love of nature and an economy honed by years of study and writing.
Washington Poets Association Rattlesnake Mountain Writers (founding member)
Female
Author, Interviewee
English

127 Works by Dixie Partridge

Title Role Year Genre
The Call Author Poetry
One Winter Author Poetry
Imprint Author Poetry
Abandoned Farmyard, November Author 1989 Poetry
Cliff Dwellings Author 1989 Poetry
Watermark Author 1991 Poetry
One of the Women Author 1990 Poetry
Obsidian Author Poetry
One Sunday's Rain Author Poetry
Words for Late Summer Author 1991 Poetry
Brand Author Poetry
The Year's Last Banquets Author Poetry
Wilderness Author Poetry
Winter Horses Author Poetry
Snowy Owl At Woodland Park Zoo Author Poetry
Quickening Author Poetry
Learning to Quilt Author Poetry
A Woman Dreams of Her Daughter, Born with Down's Syndrome Author Poetry
Strand Author Poetry
Deer in the Haystacks Author 1984 Poetry
Near the Utah Arches Author Poetry
Things Grown Out of the Dark Author Poetry
What’s Visible Near Moab Author Poetry
Year of the Bat Author Poetry
Winter Woods Without Snow Author Poetry
Winter Terms Author Poetry
Winter Loss Author Poetry
Why We Climbed Author Poetry
White Noise Author Poetry
Watercolor Author Poetry
Luggage Author 1987 Poetry
On Seeing Part of a Cast Iron Stove, Rusting Behind a Shed Author 1987 Poetry
Nocturne, October Author 1987 Poetry
Breadcrumbs Author 1993 Poetry
Notes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad Author 1993 Poetry
Night Myths Author 1993 Poetry
Leave of Absence Author 1993 Poetry
Movements Giving Off Light Author 1993 Poetry
Release: A Moment Author Poetry
Saturday: One Version Author Poetry
Bread Author 1995 Poetry
Descending Order Author 1995 Poetry
Release Author Poetry
Angles Author Poetry
The Burlap Years Author Poetry
About Stones Author Poetry
Apprentice in Autumn Author Poetry
Aunt Mavis Author Poetry
Aspen Grove Author Poetry
City Rains Author Poetry
Cold, After Drought Author Poetry
Corridor Author Poetry
Erosion Author Poetry
Receiving Word Author Poetry
Rain Author Poetry
Field Pond Author Poetry
Hostage Author Poetry
During Drought Author Poetry
In the North Cascades Author Poetry
On Re-Entering Autumn Author Poetry
Papering Author Poetry
Piano Pieces Author Poetry
What Changes Author Poetry
Prevailing Wind Author Poetry
Why Do Trees Look Blue Author Poetry
Routes Back Author Poetry
Shedding of Summers Author Poetry
Sleep Island Author Poetry
Standing in Place in Yellowstone Author Poetry
The Watering Author Poetry
Turn, Near Equinox Author Poetry
Venetian Blinds Author Poetry
Watermarks Author Poetry
Her Listening Author Poetry
Light Author 1988 Poetry
Night of the Freezing Rain Author Poetry
Absence Author Poetry
Farmer Author 1985 Poetry
Taking a Side Road Home Author Poetry
Dry Creek Farmer Author Poetry
Late Gardens Author Poetry
Through High Country Woods, before Spring Author Poetry
Daughter, in April Author Poetry
Detour Author Poetry
From a River Road Author Poetry
From This Ground Author Poetry
In a Time of Fall Plowing Author Poetry
Past and Present Tenses Author Poetry
Rain Forest Author Poetry
Ravens at Island in the Sky, Canyonlands, Utah Author Poetry
Ritual Rising Author Poetry
Sage Junction Author Poetry
Sleeping Out at the Farm Author Poetry
states of grace Author Poetry
Traveling without Reservation Author Poetry
Again, October Author Poetry
New under the Sun Author Poetry
From This Ground Author Personal Essay
Watermark Author Poetry
Generous Poetry Interviewee Interview / Panel
Pool of Aspen Author Poetry
Luggage Author Poetry
Flying Out Author 2009 Poetry
White Rain Author 2009 Poetry
In This Version of Autumn Author 2010 Poetry
Time Being Author 2010 Poetry
Dark Energy Author 2011 Poetry
Visible from Here Author 2011 Poetry
Vitae Author 2011 Poetry
Night Light Author 2003 Poetry
Night Work Near Escalante Author 2003 Poetry
Reading into Dusk Author 2005 Poetry
Eighteen Thousand Sundowns Author 2005 Poetry
The Fall of My Fiftieth Year Author 2005 Poetry
The Riverbank, Late Winter Author 2005 Poetry
Mountain Turn-out Author 1997 Poetry
Moon Phases Author 1997 Poetry
"Watercress Grows Best in Running Water" Author 1997 Poetry
After a Late Night, Waiting Author 1997 Poetry
Above the Estuary Author 1999 Poetry
Afterward Author 1999 Poetry
Some with Shadows Author 2007 Poetry
While Planting Hollyhocks Author 2007 Poetry
After My Brother's Remission Author 2007 Poetry
Not Far Off Trail, Late Summer Author 2014 Poetry
Evenings in October Author 2014 Poetry
Shade Author 2014 Poetry
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