Spring Writing & Reading Update
Spring Has Sprung!
Greetings friends. Spring is official! This afternoon the sun is shining, the snow has melted everywhere, the outdoors beckon, and I celebrate the opportunity to share with you: publication of my new book, a short story in a new journal, an upcoming reading, a sermon, and memoir recommendations.
My new book is out in paperback and Kindle
Home by Another Road is a bracingly honest record of healing, and finally of hope, from a trustworthy poet and guide.
–Melissa Reeser Poulin, author of Rupture, Light
Home By Another Road takes us down the highway of reflection and asks all the big questions: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? What is home?
–Carey Taylor, author of The Lure of Impermanence
The range of Cathy Warner's poems in Home by Another Road is remarkable. She is equally at home in life's darkest challenges as in life's delights.
–Peggy Rosenthal, author of Praying Through Poetry: Hope for Violent Times
Cathy Warner is an observant, trustworthy, traveling companion.
–Constance Mears, author of The Bumbling Mystic's Obituary
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A New Story Online
I'm delighted to have "Scrubbed and Waiting," a short story about a woman receiving an organ transplant, in the inaugural issue of Please See Me, a journal dedicated to the cultivation of meaningful patient–provider partnerships.
Reading in Portland
I'll be reading an excerpt of my story "Impressions of a Family" included in the new anthology This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West at Mother Foucault's Bookstore in Portland OR on Saturday March 30th at 8:30 p.m. If you live in the area, or will be there for the AWP Conference, please join me!
I had the opportunity to address my church this morning on "Bearing Fruit in a Time of Fear and Outrage" a meditation on Luke 13:1-9. You can find my message on my blog.
Memoirs on My Mind
I'm teaching a memoir class through Western Washington University's Lifelong Learning program this month, and have some wonderful memoirs to recommend:
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth written (and read) by Sarah Smarsh was a National Book Award finalist and expertly weaves the personal and political, showing the impacts of generational poverty and economic policy on a particular family. Written as a letter to the daughter she never had, it's a powerful and poignant read or listen.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs' Small Fry is a beautifully written and ultimately generous account of her chaotic childhood with her starving artist mother and emotionally impoverished father, Steve Jobs (of Apple Computer).
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro explores the personal implications of technology on families when Ms. Shapiro discovers through an over-the-counter DNA test that her father is not her biological father and tracks down the sperm donor who is.
Lab Girl brings the wonders of science, the love of discovery, and hand-to-mouth existence of University scientists into sharp relief as Hope Jahren recounts her life as a scientist.