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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, author of 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, author of 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, author of Quickening Fields
Janisse 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 and fierce in the overflow of storm.
--Sean Sexton, author of 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, author of Everything in the Universe
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, author of 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, author of 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, author of Quickening Fields
Janisse 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 and fierce in the overflow of storm.
--Sean Sexton, author of 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, author of Everything in the Universe
UPCOMING
2021
April 1-May 1 -- Orion Online Writing Workshop. FULL. Get on mailing list for next workshop by contacting Janisse.
April 22 -- Earth Day, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA, reading with poet Gordon Johnston, in person
April 23 -- Release Date, Red Lanterns (Collection of poems), yahoo!
May 15 -- Sandhill Writers Retreat, virtual check it out
May 20 -- Union Avenue Books, Knoxville, TN, with K.B. Ballentine & Karen Salyer McElmurray, virtual reading Three In One, I call it.
May 22 -- ChiTeen, Chicago Teen Lit Fest, virtual workshop "How to Write a Mountain."
June 6-12 -- Breadloaf Environmental Writers' Conference (virtual), find out more
June 19 -- Venice Area Democratic Club, Venice, FL (virtual)
July 5-Aug. 8 -- Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residency. More info & deadline for application can be found here.
Oct. 26 -- Pub date for collection of essays, Wild Spectacle, from Trinity University Press
Oct. 27 -- Virtual Book Launch, Wild Spectacle, details to come.
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA (in person)
April 1-May 1 -- Orion Online Writing Workshop. FULL. Get on mailing list for next workshop by contacting Janisse.
April 22 -- Earth Day, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA, reading with poet Gordon Johnston, in person
April 23 -- Release Date, Red Lanterns (Collection of poems), yahoo!
May 15 -- Sandhill Writers Retreat, virtual check it out
May 20 -- Union Avenue Books, Knoxville, TN, with K.B. Ballentine & Karen Salyer McElmurray, virtual reading Three In One, I call it.
May 22 -- ChiTeen, Chicago Teen Lit Fest, virtual workshop "How to Write a Mountain."
June 6-12 -- Breadloaf Environmental Writers' Conference (virtual), find out more
June 19 -- Venice Area Democratic Club, Venice, FL (virtual)
July 5-Aug. 8 -- Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residency. More info & deadline for application can be found here.
Oct. 26 -- Pub date for collection of essays, Wild Spectacle, from Trinity University Press
Oct. 27 -- Virtual Book Launch, Wild Spectacle, details to come.
Dec. 7 -- Meet the Author, Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA (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. Ray won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Awards, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Awards, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award, among others. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book. The author has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She lives on an organic farm near Savannah.