Harriet StrattonHarriet Stratton's work has appeared in Pilgrimage Magazine, Windward Review and among other publications, Passager Journal. "While Making Fence with My Father" was featured in their Burning Bright podcast on Father's Day, 2022. Her work is anthologied in An Uncertain Age, Poems by Bold Women of a Certain Age (Ink Sisters Press, 2021) and Rumors, Secrets & Lies, Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022). The editors of Anhinga Press nominated Harriet's poem, "Caught in Amber" for a 2023 Pushcart Prize.This is her first chapbook.Harriet lives and writes atop a red rock butte in Perry Park, Colorado. A longtime member of Denver's Lighthouse Writer's Workshop, she graduated from the Poetry Book Project and remains a member of the Poetry Collective. Formally educated in Design and Art Education, Stratton practiced what she taught-painting, drawing and printmaking-in a 25-year teaching career.Poems in Ear to the Ground remember Stratton's father and mother and draw from the lifestyle that like an album of fading snapshots backgrounds her upbringing on a Colorado cattle ranch. There she learned to remember. Traces of what's been forgot lead her current interest in prehistory's language-pictures carved and painted on stone. Because the past beckons us toward understanding, she strives to interpret the code. Read More Read Less