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About
Wyatt Townley has published seven books, five of them poetry: Making the Turn, Rewriting the Body, The Breathing Field, Perfectly Normal, and The Afterlives of Trees.
Her work has been featured on NPR, The Slowdown, and American Life in Poetry, and published in venues of all stripes, from New Letters to Newsweek, North American Review to The Paris Review, Yoga Journal to Scientific American.
Commissioned poems hang in libraries including the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of the Hubble. Dances set to her poetry have been performed in such venues as Minneapolis' Northrup Auditorium, New York's Lincoln Center, and Seattle's Symphony Hall. Composers have turned her poems into music of all genres, from punk rock in Nottingham to big-band jazz in Belgium to an opera premiering at the Lied Center in Kansas.
The confluence of poetry and poetry-in-motion has shaped Wyatt's life. A former dancer turned yoga teacher, she has written books on both subjects and is the founder of Yoganetics®, a therapeutic system practiced on six continents. Her Yoganetics book was named an "Editor's Choice" by Yoga Journal.
As Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita, Wyatt edited "HomeWords," a weekly poetry column syndicated statewide in newspapers, and travelled 10,000 miles giving programs in a 400-mile-wide state. Today her mission remains: bringing people home to poetry and poetry home to people.
She folds and travels well. Contact Wyatt about an author event here.
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