Once I Was a Stone - Softcover

Lygren, Emilie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1965320740 ISBN 13: 9781965320747

Publisher: Wayfarer Books, 2025

Synopsis

"Emilie Lygren's poems are pulse and heartbeat! Their clear vision restores our own bigger sight. Remember when we felt connected to everything? Emilie's poems are gravity, immediate ground, wide horizon, ashes pitched off a cliff, creek stones carried up a mountain. I love their endearing truthfulness, beauty and lack of fear!" -Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next

About this title

About the Author

Emilie Lygren is a nonbinary poet and educator whose work is grounded in curiosity and reverence. She's taught writing in a variety of contexts: classrooms, research stations, graduate programs, parks, libraries, and beyond. Emilie calls on her years of experience as an outdoor educator and curriculum developer to help students connect with themselves, one another, and the places they find themselves in. Emilie's poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Wayfarer Magazine, and Crab Creek Poetry Review (where her poem was a semifinalist for the Crab Creek Poetry Award). Her first book of poetry, What We Were Born For, won the Blue Light Book award was chosen by the Young People's Poet Laureate as a monthly book pick from the Poetry Foundation. Emilie is currently an outdoor educator, a professor of creative writing, a poet in the schools, and at work on an anthology of poems on mental health for teens and youth. She lives on Coast Miwok land in San Rafael, California. Find more of her work and words at emilielygren.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayfarer Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1965320740
• ISBN 13: 9781965320747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146