Wyatt Townley
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| birth_date = September 20, 1954
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| occupation = Poet, writer, yoga instructor
| nationality = American
| period = 20th-21st Centuries
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Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).
Biography
Townley is a fourth-generation Kansan and she currently lives in Shawnee Mission.
Kansas Poet Laureate
Through the Kansas Humanities Council, Townley is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings.[http://kansashumanities.org/programs/poet-laureate-of-kansas/ Kansas Humanities Council booking information]
Honors and awards
- Nelson Poetry Book Award for The Afterlives of Trees
- Kansas Notable Book for The Afterlives of Trees
- The Pushcart Prize, nominee
- To the Stars poetry contest winner, sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission ["Centering the House" and "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from The Afterlives of Trees]
Publications
- Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990. {{ISBN|0-9122-9287-3}}
- The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. {{ISBN|0-8212-2794-7}}
- Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. {{ISBN|0-0605-0224-X}} [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World]
- Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007. {{ISBN|1-9334-6643-X}}
- The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. {{ISBN|0-9828-7522-3}}
Anthologies
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. {{ISBN|0-9828-7525-8}}
See also
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Notes
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References
- [http://myemail.constantcontact.com/And-the-New-Poet-Laureate-of-Kansas-is---.html?soid=1102662751751&aid=zVv_3wGLdkE Townley named Poet Laureate of Kansas]
External links
- [http://www.wyatttownley.com/about.html Wyatt Townley's personal web page]
- [http://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/ Celebrating Kansas’ Sesquicentenial]
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Category:People from Johnson County, Kansas