As Is
ISBN 978-0-9800289-3-5
$16.95 /
18.95 (Canada)
5.5" x 8.5"
“As Is tells the heroic story: loss, struggle, victory, and how god is milk and throat at once, and rock and child, & how the future leaks outlandishly into the present. That the reason humans exist (now didn’t you ever want to know that?), the reason for humans is that we can love. It’s our job because that’s what we were built to do. Join the Divine. ”
Missoula writer Sheryl Noethe named Montana poet laureate
Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_524940d2-c095-11e0-b1bf-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1iL0AjtVQ
About the Author(s)
Sheryl Noethe
Sheryl Noethe was born and raised in Minnesota where she attended a high-school alternative program, Urban Arts, which allowed her to learn to write poetry. After winning the The American Academy of Poets Award and a McKnight Fellowship for Literature, she published her first collection of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press). Her work was also included in the anthology, 25 Minnesota Poets. She moved to NYC and worked with the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, bringing poetry into the classrooms of the South Bronx, Harlem, and East New York. Noethe was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship as well as the Hugo Prize from the University of Montana, and a fellowship with the Montana State Arts Council. She co-authored Poetry Everywhere, a teaching text that won praise from the National Council of Teachers of English. In 1994 Noethe founded the Missoula Writing Collaborative, a program that places writers in public schools, libraries, on the Flathead Reservation, in detention homes with at-risk youth, in Hawai'ian Charter Schools and in an Alaskan village. She was awarded a Cultural Achievement Award from the Missoula Cultural Council in 2004. In 2000 Grace Court Press published her latest collection, The Ghost Openings, which was awarded the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award and the William Stafford Poetry Prize. Noethe resides in Missoula, Montana at the foot of Mt. Jumbo with her fearless husband, a firefighter, where they keep a household of rescue animals, including a one-eyed feral cat named Mike Tyson. She is filled with gratitude.