Epitaph for the Beloved - Grellas, Carol Lynn Stevenson

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Résumé :
Epitaph for the Beloved is a compelling, poetic conversation in search of hope. It is written in a lyrical narrative style and includes several poems that have been nominated or won awards. Grellas delves into such topics as love, loss, and family with a new and inspiring view. Her writing incorporates the challenges of everyday life with softness, yet often surprising unpredictably. These poems are intimate and personal, yet speak to the human experience universally. Grellas' fifth full-length collection, carries with it a devotion to the discovery of emotions and all that makes us human. In this unflinching dynamic collection, Grellas examines the very evanescence of being, with an intuitive poetic heart. The following poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize: The Butterfly Room, A Few Concessions. Afterlight/The Miscarriage, was nominated for Best of the Net. In 2018, A Mall in California won 2nd Place for the Jack Kerouac Prize.

Biographie:
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills. She studied at Santa Clara University, where she was an English major. She is a nine-time Pushcart nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she was the winner of the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest, with her manuscript, Before I Go to Sleep. She is the author of numerous books and has had hundreds of poems published in print journals and online, including War, Literature and the Arts, and The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine. In 2018 her poem A Mall in California took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in international publications as well as several anthologies across the U.S. In 2019 her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was an Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist. She has been the featured poet at countless venues as well as the guest speaker at the California Writer's Club. She is the Editor-in-Chief for The Orchards Poetry Journal and Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Tule Review. She is a member of the Sacramento Poetry Center Board of Directors, Saratoga Author's Hall of Fame and has been a visiting professor at UC Davis. According to family lore, she is a direct descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson.