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She agrees with Ed Hirsch that poetry is a “way of knowing, of honoring our solitudes and recognizing our interdependencies” and believes that a poem’s apothecary of words, of sounds spoken and absorbed, can be a healing force in our culture. \u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eHer full-length collection, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eFireflies in the Gathering Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2017), received a 2018 Kansas Notable Books award. She has also authored three chapbooks and edited four anthologies of poetry and essays published by Adams Media. 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