Wyatt Townley

Poet

Shawnee Mission, KS
Kansas US

Author's Bio

Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita. Her work has been read on NPR, featured in "American Life in Poetry," and published in journals ranging from The Paris Review to Newsweek. Her fourth book of poems, Rewriting the Body, is just out from Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Formerly a dancer, she has taught yoga for over thirty years and is the founder of Yoganetics®, a therapeutic system practiced on six continents. HarperCollins published her book on the method, selected an “Editor’s Choice” by Yoga Journal. The confluence of poetry and poetry-in-motion has shaped Wyatt’s life.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Poetry and the Creative Mind (Academy of American Poets, 2017)
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Ravishing Disunities (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)
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Prayers for a Thousand Years (HarperCollins Publishers, 1999)
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JM: A Remembrance (Academy of American Poets, 1996)
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The Dolphin Reader (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
Books:
Rewriting the Body (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2018)
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The Afterlives of Trees (Woodley Press, 2011)
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The Breathing Field (Little, Brown & Co., 2002)
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Perfectly Normal (The Smith, 1990)
Journals:
American Journal of Poetry
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Heliotrope
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Newsweek
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Paris Review
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Western Humanities Review
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Yale Review
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Yoga Journal
Prizes won: 

Poet Laureate of Kansas (2013-2015); Master Artist Fellowship in Poetry, Kansas Arts Commission; Notable Book Citation, State Library of Kansas; Best Book List, Kansas City Star; Kansas Voices Poetry Prize; The Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement (first recipient), Purchase College, State University of New York

More Information

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Last update: May 27, 2019