Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
Delicate repose
a butterfly balances
on a petal's tip.
Sneak preview
through lush green foliage
one purple finch.
Cherry tree blooms
against my bedroom window
 keeps me up all night.
I will also be reading
bee & butterfly poems
at the Pollinator Palooza,
April 20, 2024, 1 pm
at Crescent Elk Middle School,
Crescent City, CA
Funded by Upstate California Creative Corps. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
Peruse poetry books and chapbooks by Terri Glass below. Topics include spirituality, sensory experiences, and the beauty of the natural world now in decline. Signed copies available on request.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.