title: Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined
author:  Madelyn Garner 
description: ***Madelyn Garner has led the educational community as a creative writing instructor, administrator, and editor. Her professional work has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Colorado Governor s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. She is the recipient of fellowships and prizes for her writing, including the Aspen Writers Conference Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Award from the University of New Mexico, the Jackson Hole Writers Conference Poetry Prize for 2010, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Honorable Mention for 2011. Garner s poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Margie, Harpur Palate, Saranac Review, Water-Stone Review, PMS poemmemoirstory, American Journal of Nursing, and the anthology, Beyond Forgetting, Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer s Disease. ***Andrea L. Watson's poetry has appeared in Runes, Nimrod, Plath Profiles, International Poetry Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Memoir (and), and Spillway and is forthcoming in RHINO. Her show, Braided Lives: A Collaboration Between Artists and Poets, founded with artist Seamus Berkeley, was inaugurated by the Taos Institute of Arts and has traveled to San Francisco, Denver, and Berkeley. She has designed and curated sixteen ekphrasis events across the United States, including Interwoven Illuminations; Reflections on RANE; Threaded Lives: Poems from the Fiber World; Frida.Fractured.; and, most recently, with artist David Hinske, Fragments: Poets and Artists of the South and Southwest. She was one of the founding publishers, and editor, of HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet.
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  Text copyright © 2020 by Trista Mateer
  Cover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2020 by Jessica Cruickshank
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  Names: Mateer, Trista, author. | Cruickshank, Jessica, illustrator.
  Title: When the stars wrote back : poems / Trista Mateer ; illustrated by
  Jessica Cruickshank.
  Description: First edition. | New York : Random House Children’s Books, a