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American Folk
Heart Poetry by Stewart S.
Warren
Contact Stewart
Stewart Warren is author of
four collections of poetry and his work
appears in regional publications in the
Southwest where he is known for his engaging
presentations. A writing coach and organizer of community
events, Warren uses his
expertise to assists others in deepening
their creative experience and realizing
their artistic visions. He resides at his
home, Nido del Cielo, in the Piedra
Lumbre Basin of northern New Mexico.
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Essence:
Contemplations in Image and Word
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image/poem couplet here...
photographer Corinna Stoeffl and writer Stewart
S. Warren
8.5 x 8.5 large square format, 2010 Paperback:
76 pages
Photographs rise to
a high level when they speak of essence. Going
beyond a snapshot requires patience, time, and a
willingness to let go of self-preoccupations in
order for the place to reveal itself. Corinna
Stoeffl’s photographic images show this poetic
dance between herself and many places. She
captures the extraordinary in the ordinary while
sensing the particular, and precise magic of the
moment. The resulting gifts are treasures for
all of us to enjoy.
Eddie Soloway,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
One Thousand Moons (Nahmakanta Press,
Santa Fe); Big Sur (DVD
www.eddiesoloway.com)
What is it in us
that longs to connect more deeply with the
world? Poet Stewart S. Warren and photographer
Corinna Stoeffl touch that deep longing and feed
it with an invitation to find both beauty and a
large dose of humility. In these pages, we
simultaneously lose and find ourselves. We
remember to “get out of our own way” and to
“raise our hands again and again” as if to say
yes and yes and yes to the world. What a gift
to give to ourselves, to each other.
Rosemerry Wahtola
Trommer -
www.wordwoman.com
Poet Laureate, San Miguel County, CO
Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners in
Poetry and Photography
Available online and at
bookstores May of 2010
Call Corinna Stoeffl (505.685.0978)
about presentations.
www.stoefflphotography.com
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The
Song
of It: A Travelogue of Norteño, poems and personal
stories
ISBN:1-4392-4404-9, 2009 Paperback: 197 pages
 In this substantial
collection, Stewart Warren proves himself to be a
traveling poet of northern New Mexico, not a tourist
but a pilgrim who returns again and again to people,
place, and land. The setting can be as charged as
the Santuario de Chimayo or as intimate as an old
car.
But this world is
animate—the frost acts like a lively bride and a
collapsing house still offers shelter. There are
pure lyrics here, and tiny anecdotal prose pieces
reminiscent of
Jim Sagel. To read these poems is to
fall in love again with language and northern New
Mexico.
—Miriam
Sagan, author of MAP OF THE LOST (UNM
Press) Reading
Stewart Warren’s new book, The Song of It, I
suddenly realized how thirsty I have been! I was
indeed in the presence of poetry, magnificent poetry
(and prose) that comes out of the wild heart of the
world—a world which we can only enter as lovers, and
with “our hats in our hands,” a world that curls
itself around us, but that we rarely see. Those
moments when you do wake to it, Warren assures us,
“You are standing/in the center of time/and
everything you touch/will take you home.”
—James
Tipton, author of Letters from a Stranger
and All the Horses of Heaven
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Second Light: Poems
ISBN: 1-4196-9888-5, 2008
Paperback: 90 pages
 Stewart
Warren’s Second Light, which in the Diné
tradition is one of three stages of sunrise,
sparkles with just that kind of
illumination. “Like the elm,” he writes, “my
heart beats in many places.” In a city diner
or on Colfax Avenue, on a canyon road in
Norteño or by a waterfall where mountains
are “wrapped to the waist in clouds,” his
clear-eyed and love-haunted look brings out
the life inside of lives to which he says
yes, “and yes and yes again.”
—Bob
King, Colorado Poets Center
Stewart S.
Warren writes, in his new book of poems, "In
whatever direction you face me/ that also
will I love." This ability to capture our
consideration in these percipient poems is
Stewart's gift to us. As I read Stewart's
poems, I see more of the world than I
imagined, and I find more in my life than
was there before.
—Art
Washburn, author of Shadow-maker
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The Weight of
Dusk: Poems
ISBN-10:
1419669338,
2007
Paperback: 88 pages
 The Weight of
Dusk is a lyrical journey of discovery,
love, innocence lost, wisdom glimpsed and
wisdom gained in fitful starts and
reverses. These narrative poems may focus
on the life of one man and its ordinary
triumphs and tragedies, but in them Warren
shows how large and universal “one small
life” can be. When you read these poems,
you may well find your own life in them,
looking back at you.
—Michael Adams, Award winning poet, author of
Broken Hand and member of The Free Radical
Railroad
From the
first poem to the last little phrase, "The
miracle, of course, is that we are here," we
are in the good company of poems that are
milagros indeed, enviro-personal, and
heart-thrown. This work is new to me and
welcome aboard my psyche, and, I trust,
yours as well.
—Joan
Logghe, author, editor, activist, and
Director of Write Action: Writing from the
Heart of AIDS
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Shape of a Hill: poetry, prose poetry
ISBN-10: 1419617362, 2005 Paperback: 166
pages
 "Poetry with intelligence, hard-won wisdom, humor
and humanity. Stewart S. Warren's long awaited collection is an
invitation to see ourselves 'in the shiny mud,' to lean into one
another, to get down on our knees and to enter the house of experience."
—Rosemerry
Wahtola Trommer, author of If You Listen and Insatiable
"Warren is a writer who sees deep into the heart
of this world, a writer whose voice bounces off canyon walls and travels
along rivers to their desert ends. One can be sure that the echo of
this poet's voice will always come back to the reader with clear,
authentic and beautiful tones. It would seem that any moment or
encounter is reason enough for Warren to take pen to paper and write
heartfelt poems that linger with a reader the way all good art should.
Early in this collection Warren writes 'Everything has become an
instrument.' Perhaps there is no better description of these poems,
these poems which echo through mountain ranges, New Mexican villages,
the many colored skins of the earth and into flight with birds and then
settle so nicely back down to earth with her people and their history.
Warren is a lover of all that the earth contains or lets go and these
poems reflect that love."
—Aaron
A. Abeyta, author of Colcha and As Orion Falls
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A Walk Along the River: A Literary Anthology From the Upper Rio Grande
ISBN-10:
1419640364, 2006 Paperback: 150 pages
 Eloquent,
genuine, evocative of place and
community—such are the voices in this
collection. Open the cover and you push from
the bank, moving with the river's shifting
current of poetry, essays, stories, ripples
of Spanish overlapping English. Listen for
Coyote, pass below polished volcanic cliff
rock, and smell the spiced wind off the
mesas. Let the songs here sing to you of
life lived in appreciation of the unique
place that is the Upper Rio Grande.
—Chris
Ransick, Denver Poet Laureate, and
author of Lost Songs and Last Chances
The anthology
project, conceived by Maria Morales
McConnell of Del Norte, Colorado and
edited by Arthur
Washburn and Stewart S. Warren, is a living
document and a deed to the land belonging to
those bold enough to live their stories and
share them straight.
Included here
are poems, essays and flash fiction written
by people spanning eighty years in age, over
two thousand miles in distance, and a
multitude of cultural and class differences,
but having one central experience in
common—a desire to walk to the river and
find other like-hearted human beings
gathered there. This collection, then, is
for people who read with their whole body
and mind.
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