Poet’s Statement

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After fifteen years representing nationally acclaimed writers and living, breathing, absorbing words twenty-four/seven, it wasn’t until I was in my 60s that poetry turned to me. And I said Yes. For most of my life—as a performer of modern and improvisational dance—movement was my poetry. Now, much to my delight, I reside in the world of words and poetry is my movement.

My poetics are embedded in a sense of wonder and the earth-based spirituality I came to when I was young. A naturalist by training, deep noticing is my practice: to open my attention until it moves both ways, the observer and the observed equally curious. It’s often in my woodland garden, where the eros of the natural world is teeming, that I come closest to experiencing the reciprocity of consciousness present in all beings and things.

Of course, not all my poems are about the natural world: Mortality. Gun violence. Trauma and healing. Mother. Time. The body and the soul. And, yes, God. The energy of transformation with a spiritual undercurrent are the through-lines of my work. At least that is what I strive for.


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