These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
Congratulations to Meghan whose book These Few Seeds placed as an Honorable Mention in the Grand Prize Category for Poetry. This title was also named a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award which honors debut books and for the Da Vinci Eye Award which honors a book for its cover design.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem, Morning Prayer, on The Writer's Almanac on December 12, 2021.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem, Upon Hearing the U.N.’s Report That One Million Animal and Plant Species Are at Risk of Extinction Due to Climate Change and Human Activity, on The Writer's Almanac on December 5, 2021.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem Afghanistan Is Your Fault in Rattle's Poets Respond series on August 22, 2021.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem, Morning Prayer, on The Writer's Almanac on December 12, 2021.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem, Upon Hearing the U.N.’s Report That One Million Animal and Plant Species Are at Risk of Extinction Due to Climate Change and Human Activity, on The Writer's Almanac on December 5, 2021.
Congratulations to Meghan for the feature of her poem Afghanistan Is Your Fault in Rattle's Poets Respond series on August 22, 2021.
Praise for These Few Seeds
Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children—a world ravaged by environmental degradation and political strife. But Meghan Sterling’s unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to redeem: “. . . to you I bequeath / all the courage / of birds and flowers, / water and stones, / to love enough, / to love with the toughness of trees.”
—Richard Foerster
Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children—a world ravaged by environmental degradation and political strife. But Meghan Sterling’s unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to redeem: “. . . to you I bequeath / all the courage / of birds and flowers, / water and stones, / to love enough, / to love with the toughness of trees.”
—Richard Foerster
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Meghan Sterling lives in Portland, Maine, with her family. She is co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, published by Littoral Books. Her work has been published in Rattle, Balancing Act 2, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Driftwood Press, Sky Island Journal, Literary Mama and elsewhere. Her chapbook, How We Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press. She is a poetry reader for the Maine Review, and was the Featured Poet in Frost Meadow Review’s Spring 2020 issue, a Dibner Fellow at the 2020 Black Fly Writer’s Retreat, and a Hewnoaks Artists' Colony Resident in 2019 and 2021. These Few Seeds is her debut full-length poetry book.
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