Releasing the Days

“In these quiet, clear-sighted poems, Stephen Meadows reminds us to look carefully outside ourselves to seek answers to our human questions and nudges us to open our eyes to the daily wonders of our world.”

—Barbara Bloom, poet and author of On the Water Meridian

“Stephen Meadows has a true gift for poetry. He wrote ‘In the Water over Stones’ for his great-aunt Isabel Meadows, who left behind a rich body of Ohlone cultural knowledge. Now Stephen offers up his own gift to us all, expressing his very human and very California experience.”

—Linda Yamane, Rumsien Ohlone basketweaver and tribal scholar

“I’ll take my holy communion from Stephen Meadows, his poems host to the spirit of landscape and the immediacies of life. Stephen’s poems remind me of vespertine, rooted in sacred ground, face to the sun.”

—Robin Somers, author of Backyard Burning

"Simplicity and spareness of words coupled with the poet’s keen vision make Releasing the Days a work of mindfulness and grace."

—Amber Coverdale Sumrall, author of Refuge and Litany of Wings

“Meadows's poems are written close to the bone, not an ounce of fat, and not a word to be missed. His words will change you; they'll make you see the world anew.”

—Patrice Vecchione, author of Writing and the Spiritual Life