Between Two Pines: Appleseed and Eclipse Poetry Series, #1

By Joanna Brook

With a poem for each week of the changing year, Between Two Pines invites you into the magical life. Created in a spirit of collaboration, Joanna Brook's richly descriptive poems lead you through garden and forest to creek, stone circle, and the cosmos of relationship. 

 

"These poems invite you, Reader, to create and write poetry, too. They act as path, portal, mirror. There are poets inside each of us, and Joanna shapes (and then shares via the poem's speaker) a life through this impulse . . .  Joanna returns repeatedly to the altar of the creative process and, therefore, builds an altar of the poems themselves."

From the Introduction by Kate Belew

 

Bio:

 

Joanna Brook lives with her sweetheart and two cats in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, on Kalapuya land. She is proud to hold a degree in Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College, where she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. She leads the Epic Oak Society of Poets and was an invited reader at the Lane County (Oregon) Reader's Series. Joanna is a member of the National Writers Union. When not writing poetry, Joanna is employed as an office administrator at a mental health practice. She also serves her spiritual community as a professional tarot reader and medium. Out of seven chapbooks of poems she has thus far published, Between Two Pines is the first made widely available. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Taylor Ellwood
• Release date: Mar 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224705856

Joanna Brook

Joanna Brook lives with her sweetheart and two cats in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, on Kalapuya land. She is proud to hold a degree in Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College, where she was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. She leads the Epic Oak Society of Poets and was an invited reader at the Lane County (Oregon) Reader's Series. Joanna is a member of the National Writers Union. When not writing poetry, Joanna is employed as an office administrator at a mental health practice. She also serves her spiritual community as a professional tarot reader and medium. Out of seven chapbooks of poems she has thus far published, Between Two Pines is the first made widely available. 

Book preview

Between Two Pines

52 Poems into a Magical Year

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Joanna Brook

Magical Experiments Publications

© 2024 by Joanna Brook

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be replicated or transmitted in any form without written permission from the author.

Set in Calibri Light and Cormorant Infant

Designed by Joanna Brook

Cover Design by Ashley Seibels

Published by Taylor Ellwood

Magical Experiments Publications

in the Willamette Valley on ancestral lands of the Kalapuya

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For my friends

Between every two pines is a doorway into a new world.

John Muir

Introduction

Kate Belew

Collaboration is a sacred process. 

As I read these poems from Joanna’s work each week (and then again as a whole), I knew Joanna and I were making something together across the internet, time, and space. To see this collection made, a bound artifact is a blessing—an honor.

As you’ll read in Joanna’s preface, my weekly newsletter and poetry prompts were the threads from which this collection was woven. Joanna has created a path between two pines, an invitation, a hand reaching out in collaboration, inviting you to join us on this journey of being a human, listening to the earth, and the small moments that make up a lifetime, a year.

These poems invite you, Reader, to create and write poetry, too. They act as path, portal, mirror. There are poets inside each of us, and Joanna shapes (and then shares via the poem’s speaker) a life through this impulse, this ritual, a spell. Joanna returns repeatedly to the altar of the creative process and, therefore, builds an altar of the poems themselves.

There are fifty-two weeks in a year. There are 52 poems. There are so many ways through moments of possible creation, which are chosen carefully again and again. Joanna calls in the spirals, the seasons, horizons, speaking stones, and blossoming stories and makes an offering. Thank you for these poems, Joanna. Thank you for building an altar of possibility, for this sacred collaboration, as a reminder of that singing voice inside each Poet.

To the cycles and the seasons, may they bring the poems eternally.

xo, Kate

Preface

When walking through a forest, or even a suburban neighborhood in the Pacific Northwest, two trees framing the path call for a pause. Reach out a hand to either side; recognize the portal their trunks create. Cross the rooted threshold. Even if the other