Wyatt Townley

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Nationality United States Role Poet		Name Wyatt Townley Period 20th-21st Centuries

Occupation Poet, writer, yoga instructor Genre Poetry, nonfiction, fitness/health Books Yoganetics: Be Fit - Healthy, The Afterlives of Trees, The Breathing Field: Me, Kansas City Ballet: The First, Perfectly Normal
Nominations Dana Award in Portfolio

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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.

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

References

Wyatt Townley Wikipedia

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