Forthcoming is Holy Sparks (2020 Paraclete Press Poetry Award finalist) and Reverent Flora: The Arabian Desert’s Botanical Bounty. Most recently, her fourth full-length poetry collection, Facing Aridity, was published by Homebound Publications as a finalist for the 2020 Prism Prize for Climate Literature. Tread Softly was released in 2018 (FutureCycle Press). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ĭiana Woodcock has continued to write poetry about the Arctic Circle and climate change since the release of Near the Arctic Circle (Infinities series) in 2018. Tiger's Eye Press published Cullen's chapbook, Our Place in Line Like a rhumba of rattlers poised to slither With fresh ginger, Thai basil, hoisin sauce. Prize Poems, 2022 (Pennsylvania Poetry Society) Winner, Creative York Writer’s Eye Competition, 2021 Not long after, I awake with my first poem. The heat in that hand could melt a stone.Īnd isn’t this what poetry does? Carries news from another world. That you always thought you inhabited alone. The hand set quietly on the other’s flank At our kitchen table, Neil and I read aloud: A marriage is a risky business and resonate with Bill’s dark secrets of the long married: One poem, Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil, by Bill Holm, changes my life. Older learners, we dutifully read five poems assigned each week and vie with others to add our two cents during class discussions.
My husband Neil and I have carried poetry phobia backpacks since middle school, and take this class to lay them down. John’s class, Good Poems for Hard Times, looks at selected poems from Garrison Keillor’s anthology. Thus John Snyder, retired literature professor from CCNY, tells our class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware. Once silently, once aloud and a third time silently.
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