Gail Peck
Welcome to Gail Peck Online
Gail Peck is an award-winning author who's published six books of poetry: Counting The Lost, From Terezin, Thirst, Foreshadow, Drop Zone, and New River. She has published numerous poems in various journals. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Greensboro Review, The Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Cave Wall, and Nimrod. Poems have also appeared in the anthologies Word and Witness: 100 Years of Poetry in North Carolina (Carolina Academic Press); Uncommon Place: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets (LSU Press); After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events (Sante Lucia Books).
A sample of her prose can be found online at: Brevity
She currently lives and works in Charlotte, NC.
She can be reached at gail@gailpeck.org
My essay, "Child, Waiting" is currently online at www.applevalleyreview.com
My essay "In the Shadow of Beauty" is currently online at:
Artist's Statement
Poetry for me is a way of life, as I have been writing it for over 30 years. While I don't have a set time to write, the writing gets done, and feeds me as surely as food. Autobiography has been a huge subject, but I've branched out to other topics. I am highly endebted to all the people who've helped me along the way. I see poetry as a spiritual endeavor that reaches for a higher element than is usally available to the human consciousness. When in the throes of writing all time disappears: I am tethered to words, yet floating away into something bigger than myself. After the polishing is done, I am ready to give this to the world, and hope it will be revceived as a gift.
New work is forthcoming in Comstock Review, Nimrod, Penwood, & also in the anthologies "In the Black, In the Red," and "And Love."
Counting The Lost
Main Street Rag Publishing Company has just released my new book, Counting The Lost.
Please visit my Author’s Page for details: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/GPeck_2.html
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