POETRY AND VERSE IN TEXAS

Lucy Griffith lives beside the Guadalupe River near Comfort, Texas. As a retired psychologist, she explored the imagined life of “the burro lady” of West Texas in her debut collection of poetry, We Make a Tiny Herd, earning both the “Wrangler,” a Western Heritage Award for poetry, and the Willa, an award given in honor of novelist Willa Cather. Her second collection, Wingbeat Atlas, paired her poems with images by wildlife photographer Ken Butler and celebrated our citizens of the sky. Griffith has been a Bread Loaf scholar, a Certified Master Naturalist, and is known to stare at the river for long periods of time. The Place the Spiders Waved is her new collection of poetry.