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
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
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.