Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).
Biography
Townley is a fourth-generation Kansan and she currently lives in Shawnee Mission.
Kansas Poet Laureate
Through the Kansas Humanities Council, Townley is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings.
Honors and awards
Nelson Poetry Book Award for The Afterlives of Trees
Kansas Notable Book for The Afterlives of Trees
The Pushcart Prize, nominee
To the Stars poetry contest winner, sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission ["Centering the House" and "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from The Afterlives of Trees]
Publications
Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990. The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World] Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007. The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.
Anthologies
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.