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Wyatt Townley [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Shawnee Mission, KS
Kansas US
Email: 
wt@WyattTownley.com
Bio: 

Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita. Her work has been read on NPR, featured in "American Life in Poetry," and published in journals ranging from The Paris Review to Newsweek. Her fourth book of poems, Rewriting the Body, is just out from Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Formerly a dancer, she has taught yoga for over thirty years and is the founder of Yoganetics®, a therapeutic system practiced on six continents. HarperCollins published her book on the method, selected an “Editor’s Choice” by Yoga Journal. The confluence of poetry and poetry-in-motion has shaped Wyatt’s life.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Website: 
https://www.WyattTownley.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Poet Laureate of Kansas (2013-2015); Master Artist Fellowship in Poetry, Kansas Arts Commission; Notable Book Citation, State Library of Kansas; Best Book List, Kansas City Star; Kansas Voices Poetry Prize; The Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement (first recipient), Purchase College, State University of New York


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