Toward Forgiveness - Softcover

Gayl Teller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0925062286 ISBN 13: 9780925062284

Publisher: Writers Ink Press, 2010

Synopsis

Toward Forgiveness began with the Poetry of Forgiveness Workshop and Anthology Project which catalyzed partici-pants, stirring personal revelations, cathartic sharing, and original poems, with ripples of these heartfelt dialogues spreading out across the Island s flowing poetry venues. Now, one hundred Long Island poets are included in this anthology of poems about the journey toward forgiveness.

About this title

About the Author:

GAYL TELLER is Nassau County Poet Laureate for 2009-2011. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University and another master's from Queens College, CUNY. Her poetry collections include At the Intersection of Everything You Have Ever Loved, Shorehaven, Moving Day, One Small Kindness, and most recently, Inside the Embrace, which was selected in national competition and published by WordTech / Cherry Grove Collections in 2010. Director and founder of the Poetry Reading Series, under the auspices of the New York State Council on the Arts, at the Mid-Island Y JCC, in Plainview, NY, for the past sixteen years, she re-views the works of feature poets and judges the annual poetry contest for children, teens, and adults. She has been teaching in the English and Writing Studies and Composition departments at Hofstra University since 1985. As Nassau's Poet Laureate, she created Stray Feet, a roving poetry show, which visits schools, senior and rehab centers, and libraries in Nassau County. In 2010, her workshops/anthology project, A Poetry of Forgiveness, was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Long Island Decentralization Grant, which facilitated the publication of Toward Forgiveness. She has conducted numerous poetry workshops and seminars and been the feature reader at many universities, poetry centers, and libraries. Her work has received the Edgar Allan Poe Prize, the Peninsula Library Poetry Prize, a National Federation of State Poetry Societies Prize, a National League of American PEN Women Prize, and The Connecticut Writer Prize; One Small Kindness was a finalist for the Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her poems are widely published and anthologized, and her reviews of poetry books have appeared frequently in Small Press Review.

Review:

Forgive and forget may work for some, but for others it is just alliterative nonsense. The poems in this anthology, lov-ingly and giftedly edited by Gayl Teller, range in emotion from therapeutic to spiritual, from humorous to enraged. This is a rare chance to read through a true spectrum a veritable text-book of human emotions. Dr. David B. Axelrod --Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Writers Ink Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0925062286
• ISBN 13: 9780925062284
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Gayl Teller
• Illustrator: Paul Teller