Wyatt Townley
# Wyatt Townley

Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).

## Biography

Townley is a fourth-generation Kansan and she currently lives in Shawnee Mission.

## Kansas Poet Laureate

Through the Kansas Humanities Council, Townley is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings.

## Honors and awards

* Nelson Poetry Book Award for The Afterlives of Trees
* Kansas Notable Book for The Afterlives of Trees
* The Pushcart Prize, nominee
* To the Stars poetry contest winner, sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission ["Centering the House" and "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from The Afterlives of Trees]

## Publications

* Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990. ISBN 0-9122-9287-3
* The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. ISBN 0-8212-2794-7
* Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. ISBN 0-0605-0224-X [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World]
* Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007. ISBN 1-9334-6643-X
* The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. ISBN 0-9828-7522-3

## Anthologies

* Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. ISBN 0-9828-7525-8
