Thought for the Day

What is a prayer but a song of longing /

turning on the thread of its own history?

~ Jane Mead

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Quoted from Jane Mead, "Sparrow, My Sparrow" in To the Wren: Collected and New Poems 1991- 2019 (Alice James Books, 2019), page 66

Jane Mead (1958-2019), Award-Winning American Poet

"A Remembrance: Jane Mead (1958-2019)", Napa Valley Writers' Conference, September 16, 2019

Jane Mead Profiles at Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation