WE ARE ALL GOD'S POEMS
Poets Cinnamon Kills First, Keya Mitra Lloyd, Jose Hernandez, Patricia Valdez, Charles Finn, and Shann Ray curated a series of poems from poets–nationally and internationally, emerging and award-winning–that stands against the current age of ego enragement, fracture, and disillusionment. The poems here, all named We Are All God's Poems, enrich and awaken, descend like good rain, resound with a familiar and beautiful music, and shed light in darkness.
Poetry
ISN: 978-1963115222
Publication Date: December 20, 2024
Poets Cinnamon Kills First, Keya Mitra Lloyd, Jose Hernandez, Patricia Valdez, Charles Finn, and Shann Ray curated a series of poems from poets–nationally and internationally, emerging and award-winning–that stands against the current age of ego enragement, fracture, and disillusionment. The poems here, all named We Are All God's Poems, enrich and awaken, descend like good rain, resound with a familiar and beautiful music, and shed light in darkness.
Poetry
ISN: 978-1963115222
Publication Date: December 20, 2024
Poets Cinnamon Kills First, Keya Mitra Lloyd, Jose Hernandez, Patricia Valdez, Charles Finn, and Shann Ray curated a series of poems from poets–nationally and internationally, emerging and award-winning–that stands against the current age of ego enragement, fracture, and disillusionment. The poems here, all named We Are All God's Poems, enrich and awaken, descend like good rain, resound with a familiar and beautiful music, and shed light in darkness.
Poetry
ISN: 978-1963115222
Publication Date: December 20, 2024
About the EDITORS
SHANN RAY
American Book Award winner Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, through his research in forgiveness and genocide Shann has served as a visiting scholar in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and as a poetry mentor for the PEN America Prison and Justice Writers Program. He is the author of Sweetclover and The Souls of Others.
CINNAMON KILLS FIRST
Cinnamon (Spear) Kills First is a word warrior from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. With a Rez education from home, two Ivy League degrees, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she’s a cross-cultural communicator who bridges the gap between Indian Country and the rest of the world.
KEYA MITRA LLOYD
Keya Mitra Lloyd is an associate professor of English at Pacific University. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review (2011 & 2015) and many other publications. Keya has completed two novels, a short-story collection, and a memoir. She lived in India for ten months on a Fulbright grant.
JOSÉ HERNANDEZ
José Hernandez was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and has lived in the United States since 1987. He received a Masters of Science and a PhD in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University. An avid reader of leadership, theology and social issues, José is a quiet activist in conversations over racial injustice and immigration policies related to the developing world. He is the fitness director at Gonzaga University and an independent sports psychology consultant.
PATRICIA VALDÉS
Patricia Valdés spent her childhood in Mexico, she made a home in Spokane where she raised her children, and now delights in her grandchildren, family, friends and community. She served as a therapist in the community, she worked as an administrator and taught at EWU, and currently serves as a bereavement counselor at Hospice of Spokane. She writes poems about social justice.
CHARLES FINN
Charles Finn in the author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, On a Benediction of Wind: Poems a Photographs from the American West, (winner of the 2022 Montana Book Award) and co-editor of The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process.
