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ABOUT THE AUTHOR John C Mannone has poems in North Dakota Quarterly, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Artemis Journal, Red Branch Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, New England Journal of Medicine, and many others. He won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest in poetry (2020), the Joy Margrave Award for creative nonfiction (2015 and 2017), and the Carol Oen Memorial Fiction Prize (2020). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as the celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). He is the author of three chapbooks and several full-length collections, Disabled Monsters (2015) and Flux Lines (2022) with Linnet's Wings Press and Sacred Flute forthcoming (2023) from Iris Press. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. He is a professor of physics and chemistry, and invited professor of creative writing in poetry, at Alice Lloyd College in southeastern Kentucky.http: //jcmannone.wordpress.com https: //www.facebook.com/jcmannone
About the Book: The essays in Walking in Awe were written over two decades as the author strove to balance the demands of running a vibrant nonprofit with his thirst for being in Nature. Readers will delight in walking with Ranger Dave as he shares his insights and observations of Nature's magic. This collection of essays also offers an intimate look at the joys as well as the challenges of an individual committed to the health and well-being of the nonprofit he founded, the natural world, and himself. The thread that ties these essays together is the author's deep love of Nature and of place. Through heartfelt prose, Walking in Awe captures the author's gift for applying Nature's wisdom to his professional and his personal life.Here we find the pairings of the power of place and right livelihood, prioritization and perspectives that were foundational to the education centers early successes, and the authors continued work in environmental mentoring, and celebrating wild places and public parks and lands set aside for human connection to Nature. About the Author: Dave Van Manen is a New York City native whose love of Nature helped lead him to Colorado in the mid-1970s. Following a career as a musician, Dave founded a nonprofit Nature education center in the small town of Beulah in Colorado's southern foothills, where he has lived for nearly fifty years in a funky little cabin on a ponderosa pine hillside. He is an educator, musician, nonprofit consultant, writer, father, grandfather, husband, activist and an advocate for wild Nature, public lands, and Nature education.
A beautifully newly updated and illustrated children's book, unique in style, of a young girl who dreams of running away to the circus, meeting and making friends with all the performers.
For every dollar a white, non-Latino man makes in Corporate America, their Latina coworker makes a mere 54 cents. In addition to being underpaid and underrepresented as women in this industry, Latina women often face other challenges, including cultural bias and discrimination. Learn about the state of Latinas in Corporate America and hear how some have navigated and balanced their career goals, values, and cultural beliefs through fictional stories and real-life situations.
Winner of the 2021 Halcyon Award from Middle Creek Publishing Praise for Breath on a Coal In Breath on a Coal, Anne Haven McDonnell writes of what is transient and enduring, with intense focus, lyrical precision, and emotional expanse, in poems that are grounded in landscape and 'inscape.' This is a marvelous debut.-Arthur Sze "Searingly honest, tenderly lyric, exactingly gorgeous. Reading Breath on a Coal, I feel the animal of my body "owling up" into awareness, I put my queer antlers on and wear them proudly, I know more deeply how we can be of a place even while admitting that we are "made of stolen land." What a thrilling debut from a poet who writes from a widely-lived and richly-attended life."-Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Interpretive Work and Approaching Ice. "Anne Haven McDonnell's sinuous, lush language captures the transient nature of existence in narratives that combine revelatory beauty with compassionate wisdom. Her deep knowledge of the earth-gathered from countless hours listening to what elk on the mountain might be saying, to what salmon in the riverbed might be whispering-teaches us the ways we are transformed by other living beings. "I put on my antlers in the sun. / I walk through the dark gates of the trees, "-Todd Davis, author of Coffin Honey and Native Species"The exquisite poems in Anne Haven McDonnell's Breath on a Coal are concerned with wholeness and intimacy and are made out of direct encounter with the more-than-human world with extraordinary sensitivity and directness. A slug "with its eyes of boneless horns" glistening along a black road like something "just born." Later, a "sunlit blizzard of seed/blowing off cottonwoods." The startling truth of "I forget sometimes/how trees look at me with the generosity/of water." One moment, your attention is caught by riveting textures and meticulous observations of the living world; the next, you find yourself exhaling with an achingly clear grief. The poems in this collection breathe close enough to the coals that meaning flares up in every line. And life rises in all its pain and beauty from these pages."-Jenny George, author of The Dream of Reason"Anne Haven McDonnell's Breath on a Coal is my favorite kind of environmental writing - a writing that does not privilege the human experience in nature over nature itself. The poems in this collection allow the experience of the More-than-Human to mingle with personal poems of love and loss, allowing the natural to remain silent, while reminding us not to forget that silence "... the whir and clack/ in the country of insects falling// to quiet pieces of shell and wing./ Piles of carapace mute as sand// on the damp ground between grasses." A completely enjoyable read."-James Thomas Stevens, author of Combing the Snakes from His Hair ABOUT THE AUTHORAnne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM where the high desert meets the southernmost Rocky Mountains, the Sangre de Cristo range. She teaches as associate professor in English and Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her poems won the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, second place in Narrative Magazine's 12th Annual Poetry Contest, and second place for the Gingko international ecopoetry prize. Anne received a special mention for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook Living with Wolves was published with Split Rock Press in fall 2020. Anne Haven holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers' Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She helps edit poetry for the journal Terrain.org.
Formed through eons of geologic time and sculpted by glaciers, the limestone deposits along the islands' shores provided the essential ingredient for the block and mortar that built and rebuilt the West Coast's major cities. Read all about the islands' economic booms and busts, dramatic changes to the landscape, bloody murder, contentious lawsuits, and deadly shipwrecks.
As of 2021, there were 121,997 registered architects in the United States. As women, we represent approximately 20% of Licensed Architects. As Latinas, we represent less than 1% in the United States.In order to create change, Alicia Ponce founded Arquitina; a first of its kind leadership and licensure initiative to raise the 1%.Latinas in Architecture is an anthology of compelling highs and lows -at times maddening- life stories of multicultural Latina women in the field of architecture. The women in this book are passionate about architecture and the built environment.As young professionals, mothers and/or business owners, they proudly contribute to the profession as architects, engineers, planners, construction managers and sustainability professionals. Simply put, they are chingonas changing the demographic one Latina at a time.
Desde que el padre vio a su hija recién nacida supo con el corazón que ella tendría un futuro maravilloso. La niña se llamaría Alcatraz Paloma; sin embargo, él fallece y su ausencia cambia el rumbo de la pequeña otorgándole vivencias tristes, opacando su luz. Es aquí donde esta gran historia se torna cautivadora, llena de amor y segundas oportunidades que invitan al lector a entrar en el mundo de Alcatraz Paloma, cuya belleza externa no era exactamente lo que atraía a quien la conocía, sino su alma. Mujer talentosa, persistente y honesta, de alegría contagiosa, simpática, humilde y sobre todo espiritual, describe sus logros y decepciones y narra la historia de su vida llena de grandes valores morales. Permite descubrir en el relato de sus experiencias difíciles, la manera como éstas la fortalecen y ayudan a forjar su carácter. En algún momento se siente fuera de lugar, hasta que un día finalmente se descubre a sí misma como guerrera de la vida y se convierte en la protagonista de una existencia plena y exitosa. Marca la diferencia en el mundo al perseguir sus sueños y sin fanatismos escuchar a Dios y a su corazón, logrando superar todo lo vivido, emergiendo de un mundo oscuro y con la libertad para hacer lo que ama: escribir canciones, interpretar diversos instrumentos musicales -en especial la batería- para saciar cada parte de su memoria y su corazón. Esta historia, basada en la vida real, es una muestra de cómo la escritura puede convertirse en un refugio no para evadir la realidad, sino para descubrir la verdadera esencia de vivir, de ser feliz al aceptar el pasado que no se puede cambiar, al enfocarse en la vida presente y en lo que está por venir. Una y otra vez, esta historia nos inspira a seguir su ejemplo.
Decide to survive or end up a victim?In the face of rapid societal collapse, Dan Littrel chooses survival. He and his family had planned to sail the world in a 54-foot catamaran for fun. Now they must be deadly serious about using that catamaran as a lifeboat to flee their suburban life before it is too late. Before they can set sail, they must escape the brutality of a world that is falling apart. Getting out with a wife and three kids in tow presents unique challenges. As they leave their suburban home, the Littrel family must navigate roadblocks, bandits, the Florida swamps and a killer bent on stealing their escape plan. Perhaps the biggest obstacle, though, is leaving their innocence behind. They must make a shocking switch from civil society to civil war. The Litrell family must adapt or die.In the beginning of a post-apocalyptic breakdown of society, there will be a short decision window. A handful will decide to survive but most will become victims.Can Dan lead his family through the gauntlet of shifting sands and find a new life on the high seas?
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