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"This collection of found poetry and art begins with the simple truth: ""Poetry is present and speaking everywhere."" During the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, poet and artist Jennifer Rood set out to find hidden messages of hope and positivity. Inside you'll find poems about curiosity and questioning, poems about leaving yesterday behind to find what tomorrow might bring, poems about seeking peace and finding joy, and poems about choosing to engage with the world with a sense of love and caring for all of humanity, for all of nature, for ""all of it."""

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"""Present and Speaking Everywhere is an artful, playful, and poignant collection. Through her colorful poems and illustrations Jennifer explores every shade of what it means to be human, and reminds us that poetry exists everywhere, in everything. And to find it, all we have to do is look."" - Sarah Wheeler, writer and creator of @littlegoldenblackoutpoems ""These poems, found by Jennifer Rood's keen eye and showcased by her art, will prompt readers to look more closely at everything as we move through our own days, to see what's there under the surface."" - Lisa E Baldwin, author of Jerome Prairie Creation Myths and other farm tales ""Jennifer Rood invites readers to plunge into a world of poetry she found in others' words and images. Each beautifully constructed poem is an invitation to find personal meaning, hopeful and optimistic."" -Barry Vitcov, author of The Wilbur Stories & More ""Rood, the diviner and geologist, cracks open the daily news like thunder eggs to reveal the perfect crystals of these found poems within. Open your hands. She's giving them to you."" -Armin Tolentino, Clark County Poet Laureate, author of We Meant to Bring It Home Alive ""Playful and joyous"" -Maria Mori, Foolish Fancy"

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"Jennifer Rood has been writing poems and stories since first grade, when her teacher would set aside time for her to read her work to the class. She has dozens of published poems in various journals and anthologies, including Verseweavers, The Literary Hatchet, Slant, Snapdragon, GreenPrints, Frogpond, and others. She is a past Board Member (2018 - 2021) and President (2020 - 2021) of the Oregon Poetry Association, and won first place for her prose poem ""Breaking"" in OPA's Fall 2022 Contest. In 2023, she released What the Heart Says, a hand-stitched chapbook of found poetry/art (available through oregonbooks.com). After raising a family and working variously as a high school English, social studies, and art teacher for the past 30 years, she retired in the summer of 2023. In the fall of 2023, she served five weeks as the Artist in Residence at the Oregon Caves National Monument writing poetry inspired by the monument and its history. Present and Speaking Everywhere is her first full-length collection."

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