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upcoming
2021
July 5-Aug. 8 -- Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residency. More info & application deadline here.
Sept. 23 -- The Learning Center, Savannah, GA (in person)
Oct. 15-16 -- Southern Foodways Alliance, Oxford, MS (in person)
BOOK TOUR FOR WILD SPECTACLE
Oct. 26 -- Pub date, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans, from Trinity University Press
Oct. 27 -- Launch Party, Wild Spectacle, Trinity University Press (virtual)
Oct. 28 -- The Book Lady, Savannah, GA (in person)
Nov. 2 -- Tombolo Books, St. Petersburg, FL, 6:30 pm EST (virtual)
Nov. 3 -- M. Judson Booksellers, Greenville, SC
Nov. 4 -- Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur Public Library, Decatur, GA, 7 pm EST, sales by Charis Books (in person)
Nov. 6 -- Meet & Greet, Eagle Eye Bookshop, Decatur, GA (in person)
Nov. 18 -- The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA, 7 pm EST (in person)
Sept. 23 -- The Learning Center, Savannah, GA (in person)
Oct. 15-16 -- Southern Foodways Alliance, Oxford, MS (in person)
BOOK TOUR FOR WILD SPECTACLE
Oct. 26 -- Pub date, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans, from Trinity University Press
Oct. 27 -- Launch Party, Wild Spectacle, Trinity University Press (virtual)
Oct. 28 -- The Book Lady, Savannah, GA (in person)
Nov. 2 -- Tombolo Books, St. Petersburg, FL, 6:30 pm EST (virtual)
Nov. 3 -- M. Judson Booksellers, Greenville, SC
Nov. 4 -- Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur Public Library, Decatur, GA, 7 pm EST, sales by Charis Books (in person)
Nov. 6 -- Meet & Greet, Eagle Eye Bookshop, Decatur, GA (in person)
Nov. 18 -- The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA, 7 pm EST (in person)
About
Into the Trackless Wild | Janisse Ray is an American writer whose subject most often falls into the borderland of nature and culture. She has published 5 books of nonfiction and 2 of eco-poetry. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book. Ray won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Awards, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Awards, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award, among others; and has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She lives and works inland from Savannah, Georgia.
New
PUBLISHED APRIL 2021
PRAISE FOR RED LANTERNS
Janisse Ray gently prods us, through the beauty of her imagery and language, to open our eyes to the wonders of the natural world and to our purpose and place in it. This book is nothing short of a great blessing.
--David Bottoms, Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch
With great and rare heart, Red Lanterns sings with soil, grit, and an integrity of vision and practice—I love the poems in this book.
--Thorpe Moeckel, Making a Map of the River
Ray has the rare talent of melding herself with the sounds and motions, the insistent, conflicting mayhem of the life and weather around and within her. Red Lanterns is an evocative and lyrical feast of language indeed.
--Pattiann Rogers, Quickening Fields
Ray says My heart is a culvert in this debut collection of poems—through which internal waters run crystalline, jubilant like a sudden red bloom of cardinal in the dooryard quince, or turbid & fierce in the overflow of storm.
--Sean Sexton, May Darkness Restore
In the glow of Red Lanterns, sicklefin redhorse and river trout shine like raw jewels left, miraculously, to adorn the earth. These poems commune in our shared grievances even as they gather papery red seedpods into wide open hands and offer them up like a heart.
--Amy Wright, Everything in the Universe
