Welcome to an August poet video interview by Assistant Editor Betsy Mars. Today’s guest poet is Ralph Stevens, who will discuss poetry, and his new book, Somehow Balanced, from Kelsay Books.
(Assistant Editor Betsy Mars interview with poet Ralph Stevens – 35 minutes)
You can find Somehow Balanced at both Amazon and Kelsay Books.
Biography for Ralph Stevens
Now retired from a career teaching college English, Ralph Stevens lives in Ellsworth, Maine with his wife, the photographer Sally Rowan. Stevens has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the author of the collections At Bunker Cove (Moon Pie Press, 2017), Things Haven’t Been the Same (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Water under Snow (Wipf and Stock: Resource Publications, 2021).
He is a regular contributor to the online journal Verse Virtual, and his poems have appeared in a variety of publications and on the radio programs The Writer’s Almanac and Poems from Here. Ralph’s poetry reflects and is inspired by the natural world and by an interest in the role of consciousness in the relationship between the human and non-human. For him the “non-human” is not just the wildlife—the loons, deer, crows that appear in his poems—but even that world we think of as “unconscious”: trees, corn, the wind itself.
Ralph can be reached at: thismansart(at)gmail.com
www.facebook.com/ralph.stevens.146
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