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Daphne Lifts Up includes poems about nature around us, nature within us, and relationships with many different people, from family to counseling clients, to students, colleagues at work, animals, birds, and strangers. It addresses birth, illness, death, and resiliency in all these verses. The poet studied with Robert Hass, Ellen Bass, Ada Limon, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Frank Gaspar, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, and Mary Oliver. First influences were Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and especially John Keats.

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Donna divides her time between Petaluma, California, and her family homestead near Ithaca, New York. Retired from teaching at Santa Rosa Jr. College and her clinical social work practice, her recent poetry publications include La Presa, The Paterson Literary Review, and Weber: The Contemporary West. Her chapbooks: This Water, 2007, Body Rhymes, 2009, Wild Mercy, 2011, and Following Hay, 2013. Her poetry books are The Place of Our Meeting (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Beside the Well (Cherry Grove Collections. 2019). Visit Donna's website: donnaemerson.com

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