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People need to retreat: to remember the vastness within and beyond.
Braiding eco- with theo-poetics, Michael Zysk's fourth book inquires into the ground of the self. Through images of wildlife encounters, numinous places, and initiation, this essay of sonnets invites readers into the fullness of self-knowledge.
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My Story
You and I, we're stories that our lives write moment to moment. I write to remember where we’re from.
Like any creative, I had to adapt. In 2000, this meant teaching high school English. As my teaching career evolved, so did my love of text.
I started writing intentionally in 2012. I needed more direction, so I sought a poetry MFA in 2018.
I continued growing in conferences with the Community of Writers ('21) and Kenyon Review ('22). I feel honored to have been nominated twice in 2023 and once again in 2024 for the Pushcart Prize, as well as Best of the Net.
By grace, I live in a story that I enjoy reading.
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It is an achievement in poetry and autobiography. [STOP]
The organization is perfect. [STOP].
I learned so much from it. [STOP].
—James Najarian, Ph.D
Director of the Boston College Ph.D program and editor of Religion and the Arts, author of Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
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