The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature was awarded second place in the Alfred G. Bailey poetry book award (WFNB, 2020). When I received an invitation to return to KIRA in January 2021, I started to revise and restructure The Nature of Art with Kingsbrae Gardens and KIRA in mind. This book is the result of that nine-month revision. During that time, I have read and re-read the poems, rewritten them heavily, and altered the book’s structure, enlarging it from 64 pages to its current length. |