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Elizabeth Bodien | Published Author & Poet | Lehigh Valley PAElizabeth Bodien is a internationally published author who uses perceptions of nature with everyday life, trance writing & the idea of past life regression.Elizabeth Bodien | Published Author & Poet | Lehigh Valley PA Skip to content (xxx) xxx-xxxx 1633 N 26th St, Allentown, PA 18104 Email Us AboutPublicationsSample PoetryEssaysAwardsEventsMediaContact Homeenternettests2023-08-09T12:06:03-04:00 Elizabeth Bodien Photo: Elaine Zelker, LLC Elizabeth BodienaboutElizabeth Bodien’s poems, essays and book reviews have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crannog, and Parabola, among many other publications in the USA, Ireland, Canada, Australia and India. Her poetry collections include Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours. Bodien has appeared on television and radio and taught workshops on poetry and poetics. Among other things, she is currently working on a collection of her trance writings. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, and as a professor of anthropology. She grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York State but now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania. Photo: Elaine Zelker, LLC Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and AfterlifebooksElizabeth Bodien appears on the Sunbury Press Books Show to discuss her relationship with her brother, which travels beyond the physical plane in “Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife,” released on the Ars Metaphysica imprint. She talks of how her brother dealt with Down Syndrome and did not allow this to dictate his life. In his later years as his health failed, Elizabeth was able to communicate with Pete while he slept through a process known as “automatic writing.” Sunbury Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1-62006-897-7 ×Bigger Pete Elizabeth Bodien appears on the Sunbury Press Books Show to discuss her relationship with her brother, which travels beyond the physical plane in “Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife,” released on the Ars Metaphysica imprint. She talks of how her brother dealt with Down Syndrome and did not allow this to dictate his life. In his later years as his health failed, Elizabeth was able to communicate with Pete while he slept through a process known as “automatic writing.” Their story resonates with those who have family that suffered from Alzheimer’s, and especially caregivers in the final years of life. Podcast Link: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookspeak/2023/07/13/author-elizabeth-bodien-on-the-sunbury-press-books-show Close Read More Journeys With Fortune: A Tale of Other LivesbooksJourneys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives, a nonfiction book, is a true account of recorded past-life regressions that Elizabeth Bodien experienced and chronicled with notes, thoughts, and observations. Trained in cultural anthropology, Bodien was at first skeptical that past lives even existed, much less that exploring them could heal present-life troubles. However, the first time she was regressed, she immediately experienced a clear and complete life as Rita, a Mexican woman in the 1700s. There was a deeply emotional resonance for her in Rita’s life. She began to feel she could very well have been both Rita of eighteenth-century rural Mexico as well as any number of other people. Cosmographia Books 2019 ISBN: 978-1-7322690-6-4 ×Journeys With Fortune In this book, Bodien explores nine of the most fascinating and relevant of her past lives, including a life as an abandoned child raised in a nunnery in Helvetia, a male sandal maker in ancient Greece, a German calligrapher who speaks with the dead, a mind-bending life as an Atlantan priestess-in-training, and even a future life. Each life serves as a means of claiming parts of herself and incorporating them into the whole. These experiences are presented with the author’s careful attention at each stage: resistance, fascination, doubt, and renewed openness. And she might not have been able to continue if it weren’t for the spirit guide she met with before and after regressions, the mysterious stone spirit Fortune. Podcast Link: http://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/the-past-lives-podcast-ep97-elizabeth-bodien/ Close Read More Other Publicationsbooks ×Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock Aldrich Press 2017 “If you are one who seeks from poetry the comfort of companionship with someone else who looks for peace and sees none but looks again, who says ‘old as I am and still without answers,’ who speaks in language sacred and elemental as Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock; poems, whose poems are like prayer, immune to the fashions of the day, like those you loved, when young—poetry with rhyme, written to be read aloud and had by heart, full of foreboding but also ‘full of forgiveness, and the scent of blood orange.’ If so, then, with Elizabeth Bodien, ‘…take a deep breath, say yes, step in.’ “ — Eleanor Wilner Available from: Amazon.com, Kelsay Books ISBN:13-978-1-947465-37-4 Also Available at: Firefly Books, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Close ×Endpapers Finishing Line Press 2011 “There is a large imagination in these poems, and a dreamlike, surreal quality suggestive of parable that grows as the poems go on.” — Eleanor Wilner Available from: Amazon.com ISBN: 978-1-59924-700-7 Available at: Firefly Books, Kutztown, PennsylvaniaClose ×Rough Terrain: Notes of An Undutiful Daughter FootHills Publishing 2010 These poems had their beginnings as short notes written bedside during the last years of the author’s mother. Struggling with Alzheimer’s disease and other ailments, she gradually lost her memory and her sense of self — a terrifying ordeal as she watched herself slowly disappear. Available from: FootHills Publishing ISBN: 978-0-941053-37-2 Available at: Firefly Books, Kutztown, PennsylvaniaClose ×Plumb Lines Plan B Press 2008 Plumb Lines is a chapbook of poems inspired by the idea that we are connected to the core of the earth by invisible lines similar to the plumb lines used by carpenters and others. Out-of-Print Limited Availability from: Amazon.com ISBN: 978-0-9778243-5-9 Available at: Firefly Books, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Close ×I Sing the Undersung Local Gems Press 2017 This book of poems, the result of a poetry competition, includes poems on subjects less frequently written about. Available from: Amazon.com ISBN: 978-1-946157294 Available at: Firefly Books, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Close ×Oblique Music: A Book of Hours Shanti Arts Publishing 2019 Hearkening back to the medieval devotional books used for daily prayer, poet Elizabeth Bodien, in her collection of tanka, Oblique Music: A Book of Hours, takes notice of ordinary moments throughout the day, making them into opportunities for extraordinary attention and reverence. Available from: ShantiArts.com Online Review by North of Oxford Close Sample Poetrypoetry Of Gods Read More Moody Window Read More Garden Shed Read More Listening To The Loom Read More ×Of Gods Of Gods Which god would take us under watchful care if we petitioned so in gentle prayer? Who makes the river sing so bright at dawn and hum at dusk an elemental prayer? What goddess draped in blue diaphanous gown enchants the moon with sentimental prayer? My child at bedside whispers simple words, her artless wish a monumental prayer. If gods abound, too many to pay heed, are we amiss with detrimental prayer? And I, as some have asked before, ask, What if all is accidental prayer? Published in Contemporary Ghazals and in Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock Close×Moody Window Moody Window Windows are moody. Don’t ask. They just are. Protective as overcoats. Inviting as playgrounds. Opaque as death. Last night he left me. I heard their voices, then slam of car doors. Our window went cloudy, refused to allow me to see who she was. I tried not to cry, said I didn’t care. The window cleared up. More stars than ever, the night called for a walk. When I returned tired, tears dry on my cheek, I climbed under covers. The window went cryptic. And I slept like a prayer. Published in US 1 Worksheets and in Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock Close×Garden Shed Garden Shed for B. At day’s end, I come home to find in the garden a poem of wood. A phrase slopes down the roof line singing the cadence of late afternoon shade. A stanza of structure, the shed stands sturdy, corners at square snapped tight as nouns. Window vowels open wide under eaves. From outside to inside syntax breezes between. Wood on wood, light on light, doors open to hallowed space. Your hands have moved to make it so. Published in the Litchfield Review and in Plumb Lines Close×Listening To The Loom Listening To The Loom The warp, a blizzard of winter white gauze, threaded through heddles, silver trees in a forest, travels towards her, humming heavy of snow. She presses the pedals, opens a space, throws the shuttle down through the shed, into the whispers between warp and weft into the gap between treble and bass, strains of what she wants not to remember, what the weaving may let her forget. The rhythm takes over, she sinks in deep, swaying smooth with each line she throws, blue songs of sorrow weaving into the white the homespun growing with lengthening night. Drawn to the fugue, a dusky night moth disappears with the music into patterns of cloth. Lumbering loom and sleepy weaver slow the weaving, end the whirr. But who keeps singing and weaving her? Published in Mad Poets Review and in Endpapers Close Essays & BlogsESSAYS“Code-Switching a Poem” You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography — The Translation Issue December (scroll down to page 12)“Mary Oliver’s Nature” Book review of Blue Horses Whale Road Review December 2015“Shapes of Violence” Book review of Quan Barry’s loose strife Glint Literary Journal Fall 2015“Starting Fresh into Poetry: A Plan for a Late Career” Writing After Retirement: Tips from Successful Retired Writers Edited by Carol Smallwood and Christine Redman-Waldeyer (Rowman and Littlefield 2014) “A Whole Month of ‘Best Words, Best Order’” Lehigh Valley Arts Council Blog April 2013 “Dear Czeslaw Milosz” (an article) Schuylkill Valley Journal Fall 2012 “Down to Earth with Tanka” (a guest blog) on Murder Your Darlings (with C.L.Bledsoe) March 8, 2012 Awardsawards All Awards ×Awards Second Place William A. Hildebrandt Memorial Award April 2018 Second Place Andy Fetterolf Memorial Award April 2018 Finalist Blue Light Press Chapbook Prize for “Leaving” November 2017 Third Place Miriam S. Strauss Memorial Award National Federation of State Poetry Societies July 2017 Semi-Finalist Fish Publishing Poetry Contest, (Ireland) May 2017 Finalist Atlanta Review, International Poetry Competition May 2016 Semi-Finalist Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award May 2016 Finalist 2015 Morton Marr Poetry Contest David Lehman, Judge January 2016 Finalist for Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock The Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition National Federation of State Poetry Societies December 2015 Finalist (for “Customer Service”) Percy French Prize for Comic Verse (Ireland) May 2015 Semi-Finalist (for “Mala Aria”) Fish Publishing Poetry Contest Paul Durcan, Judge May 2013 Semi-Finalist (for “How to Be an Enigma”) Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Contest, Ireland Thomas McCarthy, Judge January 2013 Semi-Finalist (for “Inheritance”) Fish Publishing Poetry Contest, Ireland Billy Collins, Judge April 2012 First Prize for Nick Virgilio Haiku Haiku Society of America Northeast Metro September 17, 2011 Finalist in Patricia Parnell Poetry Contest January 2011 Third Prize for Haiku Haiku Society of America Northeast metro March 20, 2010 Winner of Clay on Main Poets Wall Contest (two of top six poems) Poems translated to Pennsylvania German, painted as building mural March 2010 Semi-finalist for Keystone Chapbook Award for End Papers August 2009 Lehigh Valley Inaugural Literary Award in Poetry for Plumb Lines July 2009 Third Prize for Haiku, Haiku Society Northeast Metro June 2008 Semi-finalist, St Lawrence Book Award for Hwyl 2008 Heart Poetry Award, Nostalgia Press December 2007 Honorable Mention, Poetry Contest, Mulberry Poets and Writers Association, Scranton PA 2003, 2006 Commended Poem, Tom Howard Poetry Contest October 2005 First Prize, Back Mountain Memorial Library Poetry Contest April 2004 First Prize in Poetry, Pennsylvania Writers Conference June 2004 Close Upcoming Eventsevents No slides found, please add at least one Slide Template to the choosen language. Mediamedia In The Media On The Web “Fleeting” April 2018 “Two Voices” April 2018 “Fiddlehead Fern” April 2017 “The Rubble Women” April 2017 “Lodestar” April 2016 Poets & Writers Directory ×In The MediaTV Reading and Interview Poets’ Pause with Doug Arnold March 13, 2014 TV Reading and Interview Poets’ Pause with Doug Arnold April 12, 2012 Diversity: A Wider Vision hosted by Joe Amprey, Jr. “Local choreographers, composers, playwrights, poets and songwriters” BCTV, Reading, Pennsylvania July 2010 Poem-A-Day broadcasts for National Poetry Month Reading, Pennsylvania April 2010, 2011, 2012 TV Reading and Interview Poets’ Pause with Doug Arnold BCTV, Reading, Pennsylvania March 11, 2009 Radio Reading and Interview WDIY Public Radio Take Charge of Your Life with Ellie Bobrow Bethlehem, Pennsylvania April 28, 2008Close ssuccinct@enter.net Get In Touch × This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. © Copyright Elizabeth Bodien | All Rights Reserved | This site designed and hosted by Enter.Netenusen-UShttps://elizabethbodien.com

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