{"product_id":"stray-moments-9781421835754","title":"Stray Moments","description":"Winner, 2024 Blue Light Poetry Prize\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyce Meyers\u003c\/strong\u003e taught English at the high school and college levels, then embarked on a new career as an attorney, practicing law in Philadelphia for almost three decades.Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Comstock Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIodine\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePoetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Slant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEvening Street Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eXanadu\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlimpse, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMuse Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eShe won First Prize in the \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003e 2014 International Poetry Competition, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her published collections include \u003cem\u003eTwisted Threads \u003c\/em\u003e(Kelsay Books, 2024), selected as a Distinguished Favorite by The Independent Press Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Way Back\u003c\/em\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2017); and two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eShapes of Love\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2010), and \u003cem\u003eWild Mushrooms \u003c\/em\u003e(Plan B Press, 2007). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in Stray Moments are incredibly deep in their understanding of the world and our place in it. These poems do not stray; they move like light through changes in the seasons and the loves and losses of all living things. In language and insight so precise that we grow dizzy on the \"cusp of ripeness and decay,\" Meyers shows how, as the December sun \"hangs low as if still leashed to night,\" so do we hold on; how robins in February can make a heart \"soar;\" how it is possible to \"hear the light singing\/before the sun's rim\/edges over the ridge;\" and that always, \"Somewhere between\/here and the horizon sharks circle.\" These wonderful poems lead us to see how we might apprehend our own worlds, seen and unseen, and feel our \"heart a caged bird\/set free.\" \u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Lee Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e, award-winning poet, author of A Kind of Yellow and High Lonesome.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Light Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243792662802,"sku":"9781421835754","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf1b838c-f3c2-400f-957d-3100eeb2077b.jpg?v=1745871611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stray-moments-9781421835754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}