Penny Johnson

Broschiertes Buch

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Beschreibung

Poetry is the song that poets sing to beautify the world. In A Penny for Your Thoughts, contemporary American poet Penny Johnson presents verses about nature, love, life, death, philosophy, and religion. She considers American life in the present day. With her writing, she hopes to teach, fulfill, entertain, heal wounds, and show the beauty of the world. Johnson offers her work as a gift to anyone longing for the uplifting and nourishing experience that poetry can provide. This poetry collection explores a wide range of themes and seeks to provide inspiration and satisfaction while enhancing the natural splendor of the world. A Special Joy On Thursday morn, a colt was born To everyone's delight As our gaze met, how his eyes did shine and the last thing I thought when I looked at him was, I wish that he were mine

Autor

Penny Johnson lives at the base of a mountain with a horde of animals in Central Washington. She and her horse run the farm. Johnson provides glimpses of extraordinary lives that have lost some scaffolding but radiate genuine and quixotic vulnerability. Johnson's writing is visual and tactile. She has been featured poet in literary reviews and a contender in Seattle Poetry Slams. Johnson was the recipient of the Kirkwood Award for Short Fiction through UCLA Extension. She was a resident of Devereux, received her BA from The Evergreen State College, MFA from Goddard College. Both Johnson's novels, Memories of a Female Truck Driver and Double Back, are available from Amazon. She is a contributor in the WA129 anthology with poems previously published in Bellowing Ark, Pawn to Infinity, Spectacles, City Primevil, and Spillway. Johnson has most recently been published in Yakima Coffee House Poets where she won the Tom Pier Prize, Shrub-Steppe Review, and Cirque, A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, with a Pushcart Prize nomination, Cleaver Fall 2023, Honorable Mention judged by Diane Suess and Quartet Journal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 95g
• ISBN-13: 9781418424893
• ISBN-10: 1418424897
• Artikelnr.: 22001466