Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them - Stone, Ellen
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Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go- of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood-as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems…mehr

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Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go- of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood-as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems investigate daughters leaving home while trying to carry home within them. The moon is the mother in the book, waxing and waning, but always there, always coming back around. Ellen Stone possesses the enviable abilities to track the shifting intimacies between mothers and daughters and to summon forth startling imagery to describe the world. In her poems, mothering is attentiveness to others, to the self, and to change. Her poems are grounded in the mountains or the savannah; trees and animals co-exist with grief and grace. Her language-supple, radiant-reminds us love is never static; it redeems, it falters, it soars. I deeply admire the heart and the craft of these poems. - Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine
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Ellen Stone was born in Syracuse, NY, and grew up on Spring Hill in Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains above the north branch of the Susquehanna River. She received a B.A. from Antioch College and an M.S. from Kansas State University.Ellen lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she raised three daughters with her husband, Roger Lauer. She taught special education in Ann Arbor Public Schools from kindergarten to high school from 1986 until she retired in 2018. Ellen continues to advise a poetry club at Community High School where she taught for over 20 years. She is a co-host for a poetry monthly series, Skazat! and a co-editor for the literary journal, Public School Poetry.Ellen's collection, What Is in the Blood was published by Mayapple Press in 2020. Her chapbook, The Solid Living World won the 2013 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest. Ellen's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Third Coast, Passages North, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, Sweet Lit, The Museum of Americana, Great Lakes Review, and Dunes Review, among other places. Her poetry has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Ellen was a 2024 Good Hart Artist-in-Residence.