Wyatt Townley

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.

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.
• The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002.
• Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World]
• Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007.
• The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.

Anthologies

• Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.

See also

• List of U.S. state poets laureate

Notes

References

• Townley named Poet Laureate of Kansas

External links

• Wyatt Townley's personal web page
• Celebrating Kansas’ Sesquicentenial