Thin Places & Sacred Spaces: A Poetry Anthology

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by Amethyst Press

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In this important and wide-ranging new anthology with contributions by over 150 contemporary poets, readers are invited to reflect on and experience the poetry of 'thin places'. The 'thin place' is a Celtic term, originally indicating a specific geographical location where the veil between heaven and earth seems exceptionally thin or lifted altogether. The anthology embraces and expands the concept of thin places and sacred spaces, including: Sacred Locations - Sacred Nature - Sacred Architecture - Sacred Times & Holy Hours - The Thin Veil Between Life & Death - The Holy Unexpected - Thin Places in Art, Poetry & Language If you have ever felt the touch of eternity in nature or sacred architecture; at specific times of the day or year; in stillness, movement, art, silence or surprise - this collection is for you. Featuring poetry by: Jane Angué, Roselle Angwin, Valerie M. Anthony, Ashley Archuleta, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Thea Ayres, Alexandra Baez, Lizzie Ballagher, Miranda Lynn Barnes, John Barron, Jean Biegun, Ann Bodling, Andy Brown, Nathaniel J. Brown, Sarah B. Cahalan, Dia Calhoun, Dan Campion, Simona Carini, Carolyn Chilton Casas, Julian Cason, Johanna Caton, O.S.B., Judith Chalmer, Mark Evan Chimsky, David Chorlton, Genevieve Chornenki, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Nancee Cline, Rachael Clyne, Ken Cockburn, Nan Cohen, Eamonn Colfer, Linda Conroy, Ion Corcos, Laura Cordts, Chris Dahl, Tara DaPra, Frank Desiderio, C.S.P., Keren Dibbens-Wyatt, Anne Magee Dichele, Danita Dodson, Wendy Drexler, Diana Durham, Joanne Durham, Tim Dwyer, Anna Elkins, Nadine Ellsworth-Moran, Jeffrey Essmann, Helen Evans, Jonathan Evens, Blake Everitt, Sandra Fees, Jenna Wysong Filbrun, Alexandra Fössinger, Laura Garfinkel, Laura E. Garrard, Mark Goodwin, Tzivia Gover, Angela Graham, Annette Langlois Grunseth, Maryanne Hannan, Nathaniel Lee Hansen, James Harpur, Maura H. Harrison, Gloria Heffernan, Nathaniel Lee Hansen, Jackie Henshall, Lory Widmer Hess, Mary Beth Hines, Angela Hoffman, Laura Reece Hogan, Karen Paul Holmes, Melissa Huff, Nancy Huggett, Thomas John Hurley, Karen Luke Jackson, Paul Jaskunas, Heather Kaufmann, Ryan Keating, Katherine See Kennedy, Blake Kilgore, Annie Kissack, Philip C. Kolin, Koss, Jacqueline Kudler, Irina Kuzminsky, Charlene Kwiatkowski, David W. Landrum, Yvonne Higgins Leach, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Julie Leoni, Sue Fagalde Lick, Peter Lilly, Roxane Llanque, Gregory Lobas, Barbara Loots, Tony Lucas, Molly Lynde, Mathew Lyons, Anne Kundtz McBride, Maggie Mackay, Marjorie Maddox, Kelly Madigan, Kimi Malinowski, Alwyn Marriage, Carolyn Martin, Christopher Martin, Greg Mileski, Lisa M. Miller, Jane Monach, Marjorie Moorhead, Vicki Morley, Mary Mulholland, Charlotte Murray, Saraswati Nagpal, Tamara Nicholl-Smith, Molly O’Dell, Eugene O’Hare, Dominic Palmer, Jill Pearlman, Karen Poppy, David E. Poston, Martin Potter, Ann Power, F.W. ‘Skip’ Renker, Lisa Rhoades, Jeannie E. Roberts, Sue Rose, Ali Rowland, Anne Ryland, Julie Sampson, Wendy Mannis Scher, Steven Searcy, Cathryn Shea, Susan Shea, Bobbie Jean Shepard, Deborah J. Shore, Annette Sisson, Andrea Small, Michael Dwayne Smith, Judith Sornberger, Kathryn Southworth, Susan Delaney Spear, Sarah Elizabeth Spivey, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Dianne Stepp, Jen Grace Stewart, Laura Stringfellow, Wally Swist, Brendon Sylvester, Laurel Szymkowiak, Ingrid L. Taylor, Kelly Terwilliger, Ritish Thalla, Daniel Thomas, M. Benjamin Thorne, Ahrend Torrey, Robin Turner, Denni Turp, Barbara Usher, Bel Wallace, Laura Webb, Jan Wiezorek, Paul Willis, Diana Woodcock and Lynne Wycherley. Edited and with an introduction by Sarah Law, founder of Amethyst Review and Amethyst Press.

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