News and Thanks
Pax
A new book from Fernwood Press Available now from Fernwood Press, Amazon, and wonderful independent bookstores near you * * * Iron String Available from Airlie Press, Amazon, and independent bookstores near you (Long may they live!) * * * Lantern The second edition now available from Wells College Press & Amazon Many thanks to Lincoln Center for including "The Second Music" in their program for Bach's Goldberg Variations , played by Kit Armstrong
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"Old Tapestry" chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for inclusion in the Poems for Patience project at Galway University Hospitals in Ireland * * * Interview with Oregon Arts Watch's Judith Pulman * * * "The Hundred Names of Love" is included in the lovely anthology Healing the Divide: Poems of Kinship and Connection * * * "The Hundred Names of Love" now used in Ireland's State Examination Papers (Students, I'm sorry... May the poem give you a moment of peace during your exams!) * * * "A Cure Against Poisonous Thought" featured on The Singing Bowl: Poems for the Soul * * * "Sown" has been included in the new poetry textbook Listening to Poetry * * * Carve Magazine nominated poems "Hay" and "The Night is Large" for a Pushcart Prize * * * "Conditions of Happiness" now out in the anthology Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time * * * Interview with Carve Magazine * * * "The Hundred Names of Love" chosen for inclusion in New Zealand's Poems in the Waiting Room * * * Late Night Library's Late Night Conversation: A Reading with Annie Lighthart and Kasey Jueds (podcast) * * * "The Sound of It" featured in The Oregonian * * * Verse Daily kindly featured the following poems: "The Gallery" and "There Were Horses" * * * |
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Many thanks to The Writer's Almanac for featuring "The Verge" "The Sound of It" & "The Second Music" & "The Hundred Names of Love" & "On This Date" * * * 
With heartfelt thanks to James Crews
for including "Passenger," "How to Wake," and "A Great Wild Goodness" in the beautiful anthology The Path toKindness: Poems of Connection and Joy * * * "The Second Music" is included in Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems * * * The first edition of Lantern, published by Wells College Press as a letterpress-printed, hand-sewn, numbered edition of 150 copies, is now sold out. (Thank you for the beautiful book Wells College Press!) * * * "The Kindness of the Cello" has been chosen for publication in New Zealand's Poems in the Waiting Room project. This incredible Arts-in-Health charity sends out 8000 copies of poems to hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, prisons, and medical clinics throughout New Zealand. * * * "The Second Music" has been featured on "The Dewdrop" (their fantastic motto: "read deep —breathe easy"). Thank you Sam Shapiro! * * * Pax featured in Oregon poet Donna Henderson's Living Well column * * * Poems from Pax read aloud by Emily Pittman Newberry in her Substack Sacred Gyre: A Deeper Conversation about Change * * * "The Second Music" has been turned into an amazing choral work with cello and piano by composer Dan Cook * * * "Old Tapestry" chosen for inclusion in These Trees, an anthology of remarkable tree photographs and poems * * * Poems "Peace" and "Vision" published in New Madrid Journal's issue "Imagining Peace" * * * "Public Singing" published in Iron Horse Literary Review's "State of the Union" issue focusing on union and unity * * * "The Second Music" presented in A Year of Being Here: Daily Mindfulness Poetry * * * "Guest List" selected by Portland Public Parks to featured on the Multnomah Arts Center Poetry Post * * * Interview with Late Night Library's Rookie Report * * * "The Hundred Names of Love" nominated for a Pushcart Prize by VoiceCatcher * * * Iron String chosen as an Editor's Pick by NewPages * * * And many thanks to: All We Can Hold: Anthology CALYX Carve Magazine Cimarron Review Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time Crab Creek Review Ekphrasis Ekphrastic Floating Bridge Review Good Foot The Greensboro Review Hubbub Hunger Mountain Inflectionist Review Iron Horse Literary Review Lilliput Review Many Mountains Moving New Madrid Journal The Oregonian Poeming Pigeons: An Anthology Poems for All Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems Prairie Wolf Review Quiddity Serving House Journal Song of Ourselves (Walt Whitman 150 Anthology) So To Speak These Trees, Anthology VoiceCatcher Windfall |
