Nan Lundeen
Nan Lundeen is a poet, grandmother, and award-winning journalist.
Nan’s articles on writing have appeared at U.K.-based lightboxoriginals.com, U.K.’s Writing Magazine, The Paddock Review, femalefirst.co.uk and The Quill, published by the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop. Her handbook, Moo of Writing: how to milk your potential, was a finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards, writing and publishing category. She facilitates writing workshops for adults and children.
Poet and journalist Nan Lundeen gives voice to rural Iowa of the 1950s "where cornfields sang in summer/and winter howled at our throats."
"In these poems, Nan harvests the stories of the land and the people that she came from and both will forever live in her well-worked lines." - Glenis Redmond, Teaching Artist & Poet.
"'Black Dirt Days celebrates farm and family, childhood and church, and ultimately even 'good death.'
Enjoy videos of Nan Lundeen’s presentation, EARTH OUR HOME, at nanlundeen.com. Hear her eco-poetry and learn of practical steps we can take toward sustainability. Nan’s work has been published in magazines, newspapers and literary journals. She is a UU, an environmental activist and a retired award-winning journalist. We offer Nan's books in the UUWR Store!
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“Gaia exemplifies the earth as a living entity, which we must preserve and sustain for our children," says sculptor Dora Natella, whose work adorns the cover of Nan Lundeen’s cautionary collection of poems, Gaia’s Cry. As global warming accelerates, Nan asks what form Gaia will take during her grandson Elijah’s lifetime.
Nan Lundeen's powerful collection of thirty-eight poems introduces the reader to women who refuse to wear pantyhose, who rebuff the duty train, and who discover the magic of a redemptive red bra.
Her poetry celebrates the goddess in her many guises, the Earth swathed in its solstitial shrouds, and the power of a women's circle. It reclaims the Persephone-Demeter myth as two independent women and celebrates the “unafraid dark soul” on the longest night of the year.
Jonathan Telfer, Editor, Writers' News and Writing Magazine, U.K, says, "Writing advice guides often tend to blur into each other, but not Moo of Writing, which takes a holistic approach to improve the writer’s life and creative process in a refreshingly different way. Unleash your inner cow and find your moos!"
The Moo of Writing process uses ... exercise ... relaxation ... meditation
