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Winds of Time is the 4th collection of poetry from Ronda Miller. Ronda Miller does Peer Life Coaching with clients with opioid addictions, with a specialty niche working with clients who have lost someone to homicide. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and continues to live in Lawrence. She is a Fellow of The Citizen Journalism Academy, World Company, a Certified Life Coach with IPEC (Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaching), a mother to two step sons, Sasha and Nick, a son, Scott, daughter, Apollonia, and grandson, Dimitry. She created poetic forms loku and ukol. Miller was the poetry contest manager for Kansas Authors Club (2011-2014), District 2 President of Kansas Authors Club (2015 - 2017), the club's Vice President (2016 - 2017), and state President (2018 - 2019). When Miller isn't coaching clients, volunteering time to Kansas Authors Club, or writing poetry, she is wandering the high plateau of NW Kansas where the Arikaree Breaks scream into blizzards and whisper during thunderstorms. Watch for Miller's other books: Going Home: Poems from My Life, MoonStain, and WaterSigns. Her first illustrated children's book, I Love the Child, has an expected release date of 2020, along with her memoir, Gun Memories.

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Praise for Winds of Time Miller turns dirt into gold, difficulty into transcendence--and does so with such an easy grace that we may not notice its artfulness, its attention to voice, phrase, and stance. There's much to learn here. ---Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019, Watch Your Head As scientists continue to explore why time exists, poet Ronda Miller, in Winds of Time, shows time is interwoven with memory. These poems of witness are to remind us we, too, are witnesses. Sometimes it means returning to one's hometown. Family can be a difficult but necessary challenge. Miller shows us how we are dealt hardships even by Mother Nature's sometimes cruel hand, undeserving... Sometimes the hardship comes in the form of an uninvited stranger with a needle. Within this dance of struggle and beauty on the Great Plains, Miller triumphantly confesses, love is my politics. Love is what circles us through time and memory, even as the last line of the collection circles to the first when she explains, I am from and I go forth. I am thankful to be a reader of this collection to remind myself that a place of being is a part of the place that birth[s us], into this time. ----Dennis Etzel, Jr., This Removed Utopia Praise for Ronda Miller's Poetry Miller's poems snap open like a milkweed pod to release their seeds of visceral life, silky from the interior life, to bud and bloom again. ... this seeker turned her troubles into songs for us. ---Kim Stafford, author of Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford Ronda Miller's understanding of the natural world is real and never glossed. So too, her people live in a Kansas of the heart, one with the wind that buffets them, a poetry that runs deep with a melancholy longing.... --Al Ortolani, author of Paper Birds Don't Fly .., within her poetry, sacred word for eternity, she heals herself and is reborn. --Xanath Caraza, award winning author of the International Latino Book Awards and author of Syllables of Wind/Silabas de Viento Ronda Miller's poems seek words to help us come to terms with all that life presents, and in the end, finds them. --Roy Beckemeyer, author of Music I Once Could Dance To (2014, Coal City Press) Ronda Miller's poetry is explosive and exceptional. She says 'if you want to know a poet, read his words...until they become your own.' --Alan S. Kleiman, author of Grand Slam

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