Richard Lewis

Poet

New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
rlewis212@aol.com
Website: 
www.touchstonecenter.net

Author's Bio

Richard Lewis is the Founder and Director of The Touchstone Center for Children in New York City. Since its founding in 1969, the Center has been a leader in the arts and education field - focusing on the relationship between poetry, the imagination and the natural world. In addition Richard Lewis has written, edited and published a variety of books centered around poetry, the imagination and the natural world - many of them collaborations between illustrators and visual artists such as Ezra Jack Keats, Debra Frasier, Ed Young, Noah Baen, Ashley Bryan, Susan Share, Helen Buttfield, Elizabeth Crawford, Kathy Creutzburg, and Heidi Neilson.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
What If . . .A Poem of Our Imagining (Touchstone Center Publications, 2019)
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Enchantments of the Earth (Touchstone Center Publications, 2016)
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To See:A Photographic Essay Based on the Writings of Thoreau (Touchstone Center Publications, 2014)
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Play, Said the Earth to Air (Touchstone Center Publications, 2013)
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We Are Rivers (Touchstone Center Publications, 2012)
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From the Sleep of Waters (Touchstone Center Publications, 2010)
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Taking Flight, Standing Still: Teaching Toward Poetic and Imaginative Learning (Touchstone Center Publications, 2010)
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Sea Tale (Touchstone Center Publications, 2009)
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I Catch My Moment: Art and Writing by Children on the Life of Play (Touchstone Center Publications, 2008)
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Shaking the Grass for Dew (New Native Press, 2008)
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A Tree Lives (Touchstone Center Publications, 2006)
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Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art (Touchstone Center Publications, 2004)
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In the Space of the Sky (Harcourt, 2002)
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The Bird of Imagining (Touchstone Center Publications, 2002)
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Each Sky Has Its Words (Touchstone Center Publications, 2000)
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Living By Wonder (Parabola Books, 1998)
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Poets at Work (Just Buffalo Literary Center, 1995)
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When Thought is Young: Reflections on Teaching and the Poetry of the Child (New Rivers Press, 1992)
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When Thought Is Young (New Rivers Press, 1992)
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All of You Was Singing: A Retelling of the Hawaiian Creation Myth (Atheneum, 1988)
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The Luminous Landscape: Chinese Art and Poetry (Doubleday, 1981)
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I Breathe A New Song:Poems of the Eskimo (Simon & Schuster, 1971)
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Still Waters of the Air: Three Modern Spanish Poets (Dial Press, 1970)
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The Way of Silence: Prose and Poetry of Basho (Dial Press, 1970)
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There Are Two Lives: Poems by Children (Simon & Schuster, 1970)
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Journeys: Prose by Children of the English-Speaking World (Simon & Schuster, 1969)
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Muse of the Round Sky: Greek Lyric Poetry (Simon & Schuster, 1969)
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Of This World: a Poet's Life in Poetry - Poetry of Issa (Dial Press, 1969)
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Miracles: Poems by Children of the English-Speaking World (Simon & Schuster, 1968)
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Out of the Earth I Sing: Poetry and Songs of Primitive Peoples of the World (W. W. Norton & Company, 1968)
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The Park (Simon & Schuster, 1968)
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The Wind and The Rain: Poems by Children (Simon & Schuster, 1968)
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Moon, For What Do You Wait: Poetry by Tagore (Atheneum, 1967)
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In A Spring Garden: A Selection of Haiku Poetry (Dial Press, 1965)
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The Moment of Wonder: A Collection of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Dial Press, 1964)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
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Last update: Jun 15, 2021