Between Two Pines - Joanna Brook - Bog

With a poem for each week of the changing year, Between Two Pines invites you into the magical life. Created in a spirit of collaboration, Joanna Brook's richly descriptive poems lead you through garden and forest to creek, stone circle, and the cosmos of relationship.

"These poems invite you, Reader, to create and write poetry, too. They act as path, portal, mirror. There are poets inside each of us, and Joanna shapes (and then shares via the poem's speaker) a life through this impulse . . . Joanna returns repeatedly to the altar of the creative process and, therefore, builds an altar of the poems themselves."
From the Introduction by Kate Belew

Bio:

Joanna Brook lives with her sweetheart and two cats in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, on Kalapuya land. She is proud to hold a degree in Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College, where she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. She leads the Epic Oak Society of Poets and was an invited reader at the Lane County (Oregon) Reader's Series. Joanna is a member of the National Writers Union. When not writing poetry, Joanna is employed as an office administrator at a mental health practice. She also serves her spiritual community as a professional tarot reader and medium. Out of seven chapbooks of poems she has thus far published, Between Two Pines is the first made widely available.