Poet Katz publishes new collection of work

WASHINGTON – “Dreaming Missouri” is the fifth book of poems by author Susan A. Katz of Washington, and was released Aug. 31 in bookstores nationwide and online Austin Macauley Publishers of New York, London, and Sharjah.

“Through the intricate lens of delicately written poetry, Susan A. Katz examines the way in which people's lives interconnect, and how life impacts life. Her poetry presented in “Dreaming Missouri”, explores “the way a place you've never been or someone you've never met, collides with you and changes you forever,” according to a statement.

“How each step we take brings us closer to a moment in our life that may change it forever. In ‘Dreaming Missouri', my ambition is to reveal to the reader how each moment is filled with indelible, occasionally startling, events. Sometimes they happen to you, sometimes they happen to others and we are irrevocably changed,” Katz said.

A widely published poet, Katz's work has appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and literary magazines. She co-authored two textbooks with Orff Schulwerk music specialist Judith A. Thomas, espousing the need to incorporate the arts into schools' curricula.

For more than 30 years, Katz worked for The New York State Poets in Public Service, and then with friend and colleague and music/movement specialist, Judith A. Thomas, with whom she conducted student/teacher poetry workshops in the United States and Canada.

Katz has been actively writing and publishing poetry for more than 50 years. She finds inspiration for her poems in the intricacies, and intimacies, of life and family, the perils of living, and the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Her poems reveal her intense passion for the living quality of language. It is Susan A. Katz's belief that “Poetry is the need to write beyond the limits of choice; the freedom to see beyond the limits of light.”

“Dreaming Missouri” sells for $11.95 in paperback and $4.50 in eBook, and is available on Austinmacauley.com and all major booksellers.