Coming Soon: Letter Poems to Nature
Dawn Leas
Spring or Fall. Oceans or Mountains. Tulips or Daffodils. Lion or leech. We’ll zoom in to find specific details – expected and unexpected. We’ll zoom out to use those images to capture big idea and emotions in letter poems to nature. We’ll play with words and craft tool like repetition and alliteration that will let our poems shout, whisper, inch or leap onto and off the page.
About the Artist
Dawn Leas
Dawn Leas is the author The Sin of Being Okay (forthcoming, Kinsman Avenue Publishing, 2025), A Person Worth Knowing (Foothills Publishing), Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing), and I Know When to Keep Quiet, (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Literary Mama, The Pedestal Magazine, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Her work won an honorable mention in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s a writing coach, teaching artist, and assistant director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative at Wilkes University. She’s also a proud back-of-the pack runner (when not injured), newish hiker, salt-water lover, and mom of two grown sons.
Lesson releases November 25th