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Even the Least of These is a collaboration between two talented friends—award-winning poet Anita Skeen and renown printmaker Laura B. DeLind. Seeking to navigate the isolation and uncertainty of the covid-19 pandemic, they challenged each other’s ability to see the small things often neglected and unnoticed. The result is a thoughtful and often joyful collection of poetry and prints that celebrate an awareness of the world around us and reflect on past experiences, lessons learned (or not). This collaboration includes a collection of prints that evoke the feeling of the poems, ranging from humorous to heart-rendering.
Anita Skeen is currently Professor Emerita in the Residential College in the Arts andHumanities at Michigan State University where she was the Founding Director ofThe RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU and is the Series Editor for WheelbarrowBooks. She taught students in kindergarten through high school whileworking with the Kansas Arts Commission’s Artist in the Schools Program; intraditional venues such as college classrooms as a Visiting Writer and Writerin Residence; and in senior citizens’ centers, libraries, and at Ghost Ranch inNew Mexico for over 40 years. Shecurrently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Friends of Theodore RoethkeFoundation in Saginaw, MI
She is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand AMap (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); TheResurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We SayShelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon(2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocutsof anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind.. With Taylor, she co-editedthe literary anthology Once Upon A Place: Writings from Ghost Ranch (2008). Herpoetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazinesand anthologies. Collaboration is an important aspect of her work and shecurrently involved in writing and visual art projects with poets Jane Taylorand Cindy Hunter Morgan.
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