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"A finalist in Finishing Line Press's 2017 NEW WOMEN'S VOICES CHAPBOOK COMPETITION, Slow Blooming Gratitudes is Vermont poet Sarah W. Bartlett's second chapbook. Her poems invite readers into moments of transformation, healing and presence. ""These are no ordinary poems of love, loss, letting go, courage, and universality,"" writes Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, publisher and editor of the Aurorean poetry journal. ""Rather ... they are extraordinary poems ... masterfully crafted ... extending the hand of welcome to each reader."" Ellaraine Lockie, award-winning poet, nonfiction author, contest judge, and educator says the language of this collection ""seeps into the reader like a slow, soft massage"" in its capacity ""to offer solace and acceptance in times of adversity."" Sarah's poetry and prose appear in Adanna, the Aurorean, Minerva Rising, PoemMemoirStory, Mom Egg Review, Ars Medica; and highly-acclaimed anthologies, including the award-winning Women on Poetry (McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012). Her first poetry chapbook was Into the Great Blue: Meditations of Summer (Finishing Line Press, 2011). In 2010, she founded writing inside VT, a weekly writing group inside Vermont's sole women's prison to encourage personal and social change within a supportive community. Now in its eighth year, the program hosts an active blog (www.writinginsideVT.com) and continues to hold readings and book talks based on the 2013 publication of HEAR ME, SEE ME: INCARCERATED WOMEN WRITE (Orbis Books). Sarah co-edited this anthology of writing and art by 60 early program participants, and has published a number of pieces as well as delivered two keynote speeches about the work. Sarah was greatly influenced by her father, a world-class chemist devoted to making the world a better place. From him she learned the value of community and a love of words at play. Sarah spent the first 25 years of her professional life using language in service to planning, marketing and public relations for non profit organizations. Sarah's current work as change agent and poet draws on the full range of her experience and prior training, including a doctorate in health education from Harvard and certification as a mediator. Language remains the medium for her life work creating communities that support individual transformation and healing through writing, as well as her own creative writing. Like the hummingbird who has taught her to see deep into the heart of things, she seeks to awaken the soul to presence. Her reflections on both external and interior worlds draw from her life and homes in the Vermont mountains and Massachusetts shore, where she lives with her husband and pets."

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Sarah Bartlett's Slow Blooming Gratitudes is near religion in its capacity to offer solace and acceptance in times of adversity. When our bodies betray us with disease, death, fears and uncertainties that happen as surely as the natural world has its own life cycles, Bartlett looks to the healing powers of this natural world and to laughter, family, pets and love as antidotes. And she does so in language that seeps into the reader like a slow, soft massage. Her words, Time passes, each moment a present, are as relevant to the pages of this book as they are to life. Buy it, read it and keep it close by. Ellaraine Lockie, award-winning poet, nonfiction author, contest judge, educator These are no ordinary poems of love, loss, letting go, courage, and universality. Rather, the selections in Slow Blooming Gratitudes are extraordinary poems about all of the above. Bartlett weaves through the collection the thread of one-ness ( all loss is one ), reminding me of one of Merton's most famous lines, we are already one. This chapbook is that rare combination of heart-mind-soul-intellect--masterfully crafted verse that reaches outward from the page, extending the hand of welcome to each reader. Cynthia Brackett-Vincent , publisher and editor, the Aurorean poetry journal

Sarah Bartlett's Slow Blooming Gratitudes is near religion in its capacity to offer solace and acceptance in times of adversity. When our bodies betray us with disease, death, fears and uncertainties that happen as surely as the natural world has its own life cycles, Bartlett looks to the healing powers of this natural world and to laughter, family, pets and love as antidotes. And she does so in language that seeps into the reader like a slow, soft massage. Her words, Time passes, each moment a present, are as relevant to the pages of this book as they are to life. Buy it, read it and keep it close by. Ellaraine Lockie, award-winning poet, nonfiction author, contest judge, educator These are no ordinary poems of love, loss, letting go, courage, and universality. Rather, the selections in Slow Blooming Gratitudes are extraordinary poems about all of the above. Bartlett weaves through the collection the thread of one-ness ( all loss is one ), reminding me of one of Merton's most famous lines, we are already one. This chapbook is that rare combination of heart-mind-soul-intellect--masterfully crafted verse that reaches outward from the page, extending the hand of welcome to each reader. Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, publisher and editor, the Aurorean poetry journal

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Sarah W. Bartlett was greatly influenced by her father, a world-class chemist devoted to making the world a better place. From him she learned the value of community and a love of words at play. Sarah spent the first 25 years of her professional life using language in service to planning, marketing and public relations for non profit organizations. In 1993, she first participated in Women Writing for (a) Change(R), where she quickly embraced the life-altering power of sharing story within a mirroring community of women. By 2004 she had become licensed to found Women Writing for (a) Change-Vermont. LLC. In 2010, she founded writing inside VT, a weekly writing group inside Vermont's sole women's prison using the same intentional practices to encourage healing writing for personal and social change within a supportive community. Now in its eighth year, the program hosts an active blog (www.writinginsideVT.com) and continues to hold readings and book talks based on the 2013 publication of HEAR ME, SEE ME: INCARCERATED WOMEN WRITE (Orbis Books), which Sarah co-edited. She has published a number of pieces and delivered two keynote speeches about this work. Sarah's current work as change agent and poet draws on the full range of her experience and prior training, including a doctorate in health education from Harvard. Her professional publications comprise contributions to respected academic journals. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Adanna, the Aurorean, Minerva Rising, PoemMemoirStory, Mom Egg Review, Ars Medica; and highly-acclaimed anthologies, including the award-winning WOMEN ON POETRY (McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012). Her first poetry chapbook was INTO THE GREAT BLUE: MEDITATIONS OF SUMMER (Finishing Line Press, 2011). Language remains the medium for her dual life work: creating communities that support individual transformation and healing, and her own creative writing. She does not know how to live without pen in hand. Like the hummingbird who has taught her to see deep into the heart of things, she seeks to awaken the soul to presence. Her reflections on both external and interior worlds draw on family and her homes in the Vermont mountains and Massachusetts shore, where she lives with her husband and pets.

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