Connie Post will present “Finding your creativity, in the ‘Between Places’” at the Tri-Valley Writers April 15, 2023 meeting. Connie will be exploring the places to find creativity and the exploration of meaningful work in unexpected places. Specifically, these can often be found in the spaces betwixt and between. Some of this approach is explored in her new book Between Twilight, published by New York Quarterly Books.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Cutthroat Magazine, Comstock Review, River Styx, The American Journal of Poetry, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. Her awards include the Liakoura award, the Caesura award, and the Crab Creek Review Poetry award. Floodwater, her first full-length book, won the Lyrebird Award. Her second full-length collection, Prime Meridian, was named a distinguished favorite in the Independent Press Awards. Her most recent collection, Between Twilight, was published by New York Quarterly Books in February 2023. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Suess says, “This honest voice, this exiled voice, comes through in poems that strike me as prayer. They seek mercy, not so much from a deity but from the world, and most significantly, from herself.”