“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger [than] reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, […]
Donna Emerson
Living in Petaluma, California with her husband and daughter, Donna’s just retired from teaching at Santa Rosa Jr. College and her clinical social work practice. Donna’s recent publications include Calyx, Sanskrit, the Denver Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, the New Ohio Review, Weber: the Contemporary West, and the London Magazine.. She has been nominated for a Pushcart, “Best of the Net” and received two Allen Ginsberg awards (2015, 2017). Her four chapbooks include This Water, 2007, Body Rhymes, 2009, Wild Mercy, 2011, and Following Hay, 2013. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Place of Our Meeting, was published in January, 2018, and nominated for a California Book Award. She is completing her second full length book, “Beside the Well,”to be published by Cherry Grove Collections in December, 2019. Donna continues her free-lance photography and often has photographs and poems published together in journals such as The Healing Muse, Tiferet, Stone Canoe, and now Sisyphus.