Wyatt Townley
Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate.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.- 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
Publications
- Perfectly Normal, 1990.
- The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga, 2002.
- Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time, 2003.
- Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years, 2007.
- The Afterlives of Trees: Poems, 2011.
Anthologies
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems, 2011.
