Gwendolyn Morgan, poetry & art

This New Moon in Scorpio turns the wheel of the year to Samhain,  a liminal time of listening to the autumnal migration: Dusky Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and Sandhill Cranes overhead with yellow, orange, topaz, and gold leaves twirling to the ground while rain, wind, and darkness increases.  May we honor our ancestors, listen to the spirits, celebrate this seasonal time of harvest and gratitude.   May we release what we no longer need to carry, and invite in what we want in our lives.

Every day the deer come to visit, and enjoy some bird seed….

“Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak, Black-tailed Deer return more frequently…She is worried about the refugees and immigrants…” “Before the Sun Rises” –Gwendolyn Morgan©

On Sunday, October 20^th Refugee & Migrant Rights Fundraiser:  A reading and concert in support of South Texas Humanitarian Border Aide. Kim Stafford, Ana Maria Ferreira, Sophia Shalmiyev,  Armin Tolentino and I will be reading poetry.

The book Before the Sun Rises is available through Homebound Publications: https://homeboundpublications.com/before-the-sun-rises-by-gwendolyn-morgan/

“Look carefully at the letter shapes of your life,

your intentions

the vowels and consonants….”

Gwendolyn Morgan, Before the Sun Rises

Homebound Publications, 2019, p. 22

Before the Sun Rises is available through Homebound Publications

https://homeboundpublications.com/before-the-sun-rises-by-gwendolyn-morgan/

Before the Sun Rises is available through Homebound Publications,

released Summer Solstice, June 2019

Before the Sun Rises by Gwendolyn Morgan

“¿Te llegan las palabras que te escribo?”

• Octavio Quintanilla, 2018-2020 San Antonio Poet Laureate

What a gift to have an AWP breakfast gathering with a few poet laureates from around the country convened by Kim Stafford and Claudia Castro Luna last week.    And the gift of discovering many new books of poets to read, new resources, poetas and compañeras de escritura.

Claudia Castro Luna, Washington State Poet Laureate, will be at the Vancouver Community Library, Thursday, April 11, 2019 and again for a community Taller de Poesía, Spanish Poetry Workshop, Saturday, June 29, 2019.

Community collaborations I am working on are highlighted in an interview by Jackie Genis in this month’s Arts Brief:

Gwendolyn Morgan’s vision as Clark County’s newest Poet Laureate is to continue to lift up unheard voices

Happy Spring Equinox! “and all rain is holy water, she says” is included in the Spring 2019 Issue of The Wayfarer, which was released this morning and available on line. https://thewayfarer.homeboundpublications.com/

You may order a Print Issue: https://homeboundpublications.com/product/the-wayfarer-spring-2019/

 

“Faith of olive-green wings
a small red circle on her crown,
kwee! kwee! kwee!
an insistent call and tapping
at my studio window as
she flies from the Western Red Cedar
back and forth from the tree to my window…”

from “An urgent message from Ruby-crowned Kinglet” Gwendolyn Morgan ©
Snowy Owls, Egrets & Unexpected Graces (Pawcatuck, Homebound Publications, 2016), p. 49

photo by Laure W. Nesh©

“Each day I wander through the landscape of spirit: this evening painting…”            “Window, Winter” Gwendolyn Morgan, Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea   (Pawcatuck, Homebound Publications, 2013) p. 8

With gratitude to Erin Dengerink and Don Gray for their inspiration at Art at the CAVE Gallery, Vancouver, this month “seeking beauty and hope in a complicated world.”   Thanks to Erin for gifting us at First Friday with “art balm” and “divining cards,” (as in photo) softening the skin of creativity.     May this year bring spaciousness for painting, reading, writing poetry, creating new art work in the company of many poets and writers, painters and artists, musicians and dancers, dreamers and creatives.

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©Gwendolyn Morgan 2018 “Dreaming the Moon into the Sky” 

Que la paz y belleza de la estación brille, brille en tu corazon.