David Feela is a poet, free-lance writer, writing instructor, and book collector. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including the High Country News' "Writers on the Range," Mountain Gazette, Small Farmer's Journal, Utne Reader, and in the newspaper as a "Colorado Voice" for The Denver Post. For 11 years he served as a contributing editor and columnist for the former Inside/Outside Southwest and currently writes monthly columns for The Four Corners Free Press and The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the Southwest Poet Series. His first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas, appeared in 2009. His collection of essays, How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners was selected as a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in the category of Creative Nonfiction. It was re-released as an ebook at -Amazon- in January 2020. David Feela's most recent chapbook, Little Acres (April, 2019) is now available from -Unsolicited Press- and also as an ebook at -Amazon- .
Utah’s first Poet Laureate David Lee wrote, “If you want to read a book filled with love, life, and razor wit based on incredible observation and perception, written in some of the sharpest, best-crafted lines you’ll find out there anywhere on the vast horizon of poetry, brimming with the freshest imagery and figurative language you’ve seen in eons, this just might be your lucky day.”
LITTLE ACRES is that book -- a chapbook really -- of 26 poems, like a small lyrical garden rooted in a sensibility that surrounds everything rural: landscape, trees, birds, animals, flowers, weather, all filtered through an intuitive sensibility, all contributing to the book’s passion for both language and insight. Loosely arranged around a season on a tiny acreage, these poems shape a kind of almanac for living in the natural world. Surprises, pleasures, disappointments, the rich emotions of the heart. They are crafted poems inhabited by muses, palpable as the sun or the moon, offering readers the experience of a richly poetic landscape.
KSJD's Tom Yoder sat down with David to hear him read from his new book and to discuss the experiences that inspire his poetry: www.ksjd.org/post/poet-david-feela-his-new-book-little-acres
Previous books by David Feela include:
LITTLE ACRES is that book -- a chapbook really -- of 26 poems, like a small lyrical garden rooted in a sensibility that surrounds everything rural: landscape, trees, birds, animals, flowers, weather, all filtered through an intuitive sensibility, all contributing to the book’s passion for both language and insight. Loosely arranged around a season on a tiny acreage, these poems shape a kind of almanac for living in the natural world. Surprises, pleasures, disappointments, the rich emotions of the heart. They are crafted poems inhabited by muses, palpable as the sun or the moon, offering readers the experience of a richly poetic landscape.
KSJD's Tom Yoder sat down with David to hear him read from his new book and to discuss the experiences that inspire his poetry: www.ksjd.org/post/poet-david-feela-his-new-book-little-acres
Previous books by David Feela include:
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The Home Atlas and How Delicate These Arches by David Feela are available in paperback format from Amazon.com
“David Feela is the voice of a voyager, but one who turns his caring and keen traveler’s eyes on the landscape of home and family. The Home Atlas is a wilderness guide for each of us on own terrific yet close-at-hand adventures, right here, right now, where ever we might be, on our own voyages of the heart.”—Ken Wright, author of The Monkey Wrench Dad and Why I'm Against It All “David Feela’s poems speak with a sort of ironic voice that allows a range of emotions from the tender to the tough, from the comic to the tragic, and with rare intelligence. They are as unpredictable as the world we face and so are a wonderful and knowing reflection of it, and more, they discover what we didn’t know before, the rare vision that this stunning new poet brings to that world.”—Richard Jackson, author of Part of the Story, Worlds Apart, Alive All Day, and Heartwall “These poems are the work of a bemused philosopher and humorist whose explorations of some historical moments create memorable images and revelations. These are poems I would like to send into space for other beings to decode because they reveal with a gentle touch and considerable intelligence a lot about who we are and where we are going.”—Leslie Ullman, author of Natural Histories, Dreams by No One’s Daughter, and Slow Work Through Sand |
