Wyatt Townley Explained

Wyatt Townley
Birth Date:	September 20, 1954
Occupation:	Poet, writer, yoga instructor
Nationality:	American
Period:	20th-21st Centuries
Genre:	Poetry, nonfiction, fitness/health

Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).

Biography

Townley is a fourth-generation Kansan and she currently lives in Shawnee Mission.

Through the Kansas Humanities Council, Townley is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings.^[1]

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 ["Centering the House" and "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from ''The Afterlives of Trees'']

Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990.
The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002.
Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World]
Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007.
The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011.