Publications…
PERIODICALS:
"Reciprocity Suite” Center for Humans and Nature
Please visit www.elizabethherron.net for publication details.
BOOKS:
IN THE CITIES OF SLEEP - Finalist
for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, 2024.
Poems addressing the climate crisis from Fernwood Press, February 2023.
I am grateful to Eric Muhr, my editor at Fernwood Press for his faith in my collection of poems addressing the climate crisis, In the Cities of Sleep.
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Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an arts project to instigate a shift in consciousness on behalf of our beloved and endangered Earth, rolled out in 2021 with a boundless web of international arts actions -- exhibits, solo and collaborative performances, mixed media events, music, dance, print -- surprises yet to be imagined. Go to EXTRACTION for information and inspiration. Look at the Participants lists -- there’s bound to be a way you can join our best inventive wits for a continuing “glorious ruckus.”
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INSISTENT GRACE is available from Fernwood Press:
http://www.barclaypressbookstore.com/All-Books/
The poems on my Poetry As It Happens page are from Insistent Grace and In the Cities of Sleep.
THE POET’S HOUSE
forthcoming from One Bird Books, 2025
The Poet’s House written to live inside Bruce Johnson’s large sculpture, Poetry House, this book-length hand-written poem encourages each of us to enter the landscape of poetic mind. “The poet’s house is the house without walls. . . . It is the dust and ashes of our world with all its violence and its beauty, it’s temple bells, its wars and its ruins.” The book is a long meditation from a state of mind so personal it passes through itself and shape-shifts to something larger, something I cannot call my own.
REPORT
poetry chapbook, dPress
LANGUAGE FOR THE WILD
poetry chapbook, Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery
DARK SEASON
poetry chapbook, Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery
DESIRE BEING FULL OF DISTANCES
poetry, Calliopea Press
WHILE THE DISTANCE WIDENS
short fiction, Floating Island Press
THE STONES THE DARK EARTH
poetry chapbook, Harlequin Ink
HER BODY
poetry chapbook forthcoming from Main Street Rag
Some of these books are available online. They may also be ordered through the publishers or even directly from me, Elizabeth. Please help me with an identifying subject line and email again if I am too slow responding.
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From IN THE CITIES OF SLEEP
Bringing Back Water
That night you went down the street
to bring back water – sweet
smell of rain
on your shirt, the good water
from who-knows-where
in its killer-plastic bottle. Wind
through the open door, leaving
returning. Now stars,
too early for the old moon.
There is a wilderness of pure joy
beneath all sorrow.
It’s where things begin.
from INSISTENT GRACE
Swimmer
I look for the lazy chartreuse light
It glides with me over the long black line
wavering up from the bottom. I fin over it,
my one good eye tracking the course. Weightless
and sleek, my arms and shoulders strong,
as good as any graced beast, safe
in my water home, easy in the blindness
of my felt world, my slippery self, easy
to believe in love here, easy here to be a body.
It’s all silver and chartreuse and if it rains,
silver in the sky, too, in the hissing surface,
the chartreuse shot through,
each drop a small electric ecstasy.
I roll my head to gulp the sharp air
and the ping ping of buckshot rain stings
the closed lid I don’t see through, but even then
I can feel the light, the shadow, the wet chartreuse
rolling below my other ear.
My slippery self -- chartreuse and silver
are my skin, the black line my belly, the rain
my own electric sky brain – ping ping ping. Easy
this way, my one good eye not even trying.