Wyatt Townley
- Born
- 1954
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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• Name — Wyatt Townley • Born — September 20, 1954 • Occupation — Poet, writer, yoga instructor • Period — 20th-21st Centuries • Genre — Poetry, nonfiction, fitness/health 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.
Anthologies
• Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.
Publications
• Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990. • The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. • Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World] • Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007. • The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.
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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 Houseand "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from The Afterlives of Trees]
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