Thank you very much, Jonathan.
Called by the Bloomsbury Review, one of the most insightful
and spirited poets today.
Pamela Uschuk is the author of five volumes of poetry, Crazy
Love, Finding Peaches in the Desert, One Legged Dancer,
Scattered Risks and Without The Comfort Of Stars.
She is editor in chief of the Literary Magazine
Cutthroat, a journal of the arts and I
happen to know she's also a wonderful and very much
loved teacher of poetry at the Fort Lewis College in Durango
Colorado and at the Poetry Center among other places.
Before we hear from Pamela, I just
wanted to read you a few words about her work
by poet, novelist, anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye.
Life lived at the fever pitch of awareness and care,
intensely present eye and voice to ripped out
rooms, distant battles, vivid landscapes,
succulent soil cupped in the fist and loves unending.
Pamela Uschuk moves at eloquent passionate depth
through the glories and pleasures of our haunted days.
Please join me in welcoming Pamela.