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Poetry

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Cootie Catcher/Fortune Teller Poems

Large format handmade origami poems that let readers choose from among 16 different haiku-like stanzas.

in Anomaly: "Cookery in the Time of COVID," "Mouthing Off," and "Survival Guide."

Poems

List of recent poetry publications. If the poem title is in green you can read it online. Choose the red  journal title link to go there.

Shot Glass Journal. #38, Sept 2022.  "Charlottesville Anniversary" and "Firefly Season."

Nimrod International. What Now? The Future We Make.
Spring/Summer 2022, Vol. 65, No. 2. “We say stay safe, be well—," "Overwintering," "Inclusion Criteria," "Spring Morning Without Cream.”

Poetry South. Songs of the Red Velvet Ant. Issue 13, 2021.

Present Tense Lit Mag. Winter 2021. "That's Wild."

The Hopper. Issue 6.2. Fall 2021. "Department of Agriculture Photographer, 1943." Pushcart nominated poem.

Postscript Magazine. Excel Issue 36. February 2021. Two poems: "Migrations" and "Spiders don't say."

TAB Journal of Poetry and Poetics. Vol 9, Issue 1, Jan 2021. "Checklist for Tuesday."  Audio recording and PDF of print issue.

Streetlight, Jan 15, 2021, "To an Ovenbird while Sheltering in Place."

ANMLY, #31, 2020, "Cookery in the Time of COVID," "Mouthing Off," and "Survival Guide." These are 3 cootie-catcher poems.

The Healing Muse, Fall 2020, Vol 20, No. 1 "Sassafras Ecstatic."

The Hollins Critic, October 2020 "Walking the Celtic Ridgeway." Pushcart nominated poem.

Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. "Idiosyncratic Attachments," in Rabbit 30: The Long Poem (II), 2020

K'in: "Stay With Your Guide." Issue 5, June 2020.

FewerThan500:
"Playing Word Games at Saint Boniface." April 7, 2020.

Nimrod International Journal: "The Catch" in Vol 63, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2020 issue "Words on Play."

3Elements Literary Review: "The Linguistics Major Advises the Candidate" from the Winter 2020 issue "Carriage, Pinwheel, Scour."

Origins: "Into the Tangle," a poem from the Triage Project. April 17, 2018

3Elements Literary Review:  "The Year of the Cicada," in Issue #14, Spring 2017 "Husk, Echo, Quell."

Journal of Wild Culture:  "On the Cusp of the Known World: A Field Guide," "Water Witch," and "Skin of Stars," September 17, 2017

Shot Glass Journal: "Bio-Pic to Feature New Mega-Star, Hope." September 2017, Issue #23

AJN: The American Journal of Nursing: "Flash Cards," August 2017, Vol 117, Issue 8 p 55

The article at One Earth Sangha, Green Vesak: Ebullience and Emergence  includes the poem "Green." I served as Assistant Editor with One Earth Sangha for 18 months in 2016-2017.

A  poetry exchange about the “growing season” with poet Tricia Knoll in the Orion Magazine Tumblr blog on May 15, 2014.
Projects
Poetry Unfolding: A Middle school  origami poetry, art, and natural history workshop.

About the Poet

Amelia L. Williams, PhD, is a poet and writer/editor who lives in the rural Rockfish River Valley of Central Virginia. She received her doctorate in English Literature at the University of Virginia.

She is the author of Walking Wildwood Trail: Poems and Photographs, a book of lyrical poems from a 3-mile trail of eco-poetry art works in Nelson County. Photographs and trail map contributed  by central Virginia artists, including Max Johnson and Melissa Luce. The trail celebrates the Central Virginia landscapes that the proposed fracked-gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline would ravage. Williams has long been interested in the productive intersections of artistic creativity, mindfulness practice and the spirit of place – synergies made more urgent by her activism against the ACP.

Her work has appeared in Centrifugal Eye, The Blue Ridge Anthology, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Piedmont Virginian, 3Elements Literary Review and elsewhere. She is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences .
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© Melissa Luce
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© Max Johnson

Readings, Prizes & More

2018, Presenter, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington DC

2017, Poetry Society of Virginia, 1st place in "Nature" category for "The Cusp of the Known World: A Field Guide."

2016, Jefferson Madison Regional Library and Writer House Poetry Prize for "In the Field of the Ruined Piano."

2016, May. Nelson County Parks & Recreation. Wild Ink: The Art of the Trail.

2015, January. Rapunzel's Coffee and Books. Poetry and Fiction Night - Featured Poet.

2015. January. "The Story, Actually." Poetry Society of Virginia First Prize for "A Poem with a Point of View"

2015, May. Rockfish Valley Community Center: The Poetry of Place: An Experiential Workshop.

2013.  The Writer's Studio. Interviewer, discussant with poet Lisa Dordal.  Writer House.

2013.  The Five Senses: Two Walks to Explore Mindfulness and Creativity. Writer House.

2012-2013, Fall and Spring. Seasonal Wild Ink walks, through Nelson County Parks & Recreation.

2009. How Sitting Around Doing Nothing Can Land You A Job: Meditation and Mindfulness for Mothers and Job Hunters. Momentum Resources blog.






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