{"product_id":"still-life-with-poppies-elegies","title":"Still Life with Poppies: Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeslie Schultz\u003c\/strong\u003e can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making poems. She studied creative writing at the UW-Madison in Madison, WI and at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. She now lives in Northfield, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn contemplative and prone to leaps of faith, she began studying yoga as a teenager and has never stopped. In the 1990s, she fell in love with labyrinths, built one in her own garden, and walked it daily. In 1998, Schultz completed yoga teacher training at Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA and co-founded Heartwork Yoga Studio. In 2000, she began collaborating with artist and labyrinth maker Marilyn Larson to publish contemplative resources, including \u003cem\u003eA Pocket Guide to Labyrinths\u003c\/em\u003e; four printings later, it is still available at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchultz’s photography has been purchased by hospitals, clinics, and private collections, and is featured on greeting cards. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared a variety of journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eAble Muse\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMezzo Cammin\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSwamp Lily\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePoetic Strokes Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Pacific Review\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Northern Review\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Madison Review\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Mid-American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Midwest Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStone Country\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSun Dog\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Wayfarer\u003c\/em\u003e; and in a chapbook, \u003cem\u003eLiving Room\u003c\/em\u003e (Midwestern Writers’ Publishing House). In 2013, one of her haiku was included in the payload of NASA’s MAVEN mission and is currently orbiting the red planet. She has published two middle-grade novels, featuring main characters who are homeschooled, with Do Life Right Press: \u003cem\u003eThe Howling Vowels\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eAnd Sometimes Y\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). Schultz posts poems, essays, interviews, and photographs at winonamedia.net.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 106 pages\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Kelsay Books\/White Violet Press (March 7, 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462938718311,"sku":"nyt1787286621154","price":10.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/1601\/0087\/files\/still-life-with-poppies-elegies_1.jpg?v=1787286626","url":"https:\/\/urbanstepfashion.shop\/products\/still-life-with-poppies-elegies","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}