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                                                 News and Thanks

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                                       Pax
                                   
A new book
                            from Fernwood Press
             Available now from Fernwood Press,   
             Amazon, and wonderful independent
                            bookstores near you 
                                    
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                                Iron String

            Available from Airlie Press, Amazon,
                                       and
            independent bookstores near you
                       (Long may they live!)
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                                  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 

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            Interview with Oregon Arts Watch's
Judith Pulman    

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"The Hundred Names of  
Love" is included in the lovely anthology
Healing the Divide:  Poems of Kinship and Connection  
 
                                                 
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       "A Cure Against Poisonous Thought"
featured on The Singing Bowl:  Poems for the Soul
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"Sown" has been  included in the new poetry
                textbook Listening to Poetry 
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           Carve Magazine   nominated poems 
                   "Hay" and "The Night is Large"
                            for a Pushcart Prize
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                      "Conditions of Happiness"
                  now out in the anthology  
              Come Shining:  Essays and Poems
                                 on Writing in a Dark Time

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             Interview with Carve Magazine 
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                "
The Hundred Names of Love"
      chosen for inclusion in New Zealand's 
                  Poems in the Waiting Room 
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                        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"
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        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  
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 "The Second Music"    
      is included in
   Poetry of Presence:
      An Anthology
 of Mindfulness Poems
 


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​                   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!)
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                    "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.
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        "The Second Music" has been  turned 
                    into an amazing choral work
​                           with cello and piano
                        by c
omposer Dan Cook
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       "Old Tapestry" chosen for inclusion in 
         These Trees, an anthology of remarkable
                  tree photographs and poems
                  
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     Poems "Peace" and "Vision" published in 
 New Madrid  Journal's  issue "Imagining Peace"
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               "Public Singing" published in
      Iron Horse Literary Review's  "State of the 
​    Union" issue focusing on union and unity
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                       "The Second Music"
            presented in A Year of Being Here:  
                        Daily Mindfulness Poetry

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                               "Guest List"
 selected by Portland Public Parks to featured
     on the Multnomah Arts Center Poetry Post
                               
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            Interview with Late Night Library's
                                  Rookie Report
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               "The Hundred Names of Love" 
  nominated for a Pushcart Prize by VoiceCatcher
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           Iron String  chosen as an Editor's Pick 
                                by NewPages 
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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

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