https://www.amyagordon.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-08-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/5f2703544461c35e0aac9a36/1596392298908/Amy+Gordon-kids-signing.JPG Contact https://www.amyagordon.com/home daily 1.0 2021-08-13 https://www.amyagordon.com/home/poetry monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/5f275ef02528460dcb8e541e/1621991803809/Amy+Gordon-Deep+Fahrenheit+2.jpg Home - Poetry - Prolific Press Deep Fahrenheit Deep Fahrenheit portrays the process of growing up. In the opening poem, a woman in feudal times stands in a field under the stars and feels the turning of the earth beneath her feet and senses for the first time that she is not the center of the universe and that she is connected to all things. In the final poem, a contemporary woman standing outside at the end of a day, also feels the earth’s turning, and senses not only her own death but the gradual extinction of all things. The feudal woman can be seen as a child emerging out of her egocentric universe, experiencing the first of many epiphanies. Growth occurs sometimes in shattering moments of disillusion: “Waking Up”, “We Lived in a Child’s Painting,” or in joyful unions, “Let’s Face It” or in quiet moments: “Otter Pond.” These moments might be considered the “Deep Fahrenheit,” where the lens through which the child observes the world is developed. This is a female lens, a girl-becoming-woman’s response to being raised in a world that at first seemed like child’s painting, complete with red house, yellow sun, and blue lake. By stepping through the metaphorical ice into the muck beneath the surface, she gains a deeper understanding and empathy for the people around her, those she knows intimately and those she observes in passing; she sees climate change, war, school shootings, the disappearance of language; she sees loneliness, aging, abandoned places. She lives with the doleful tune of her own failings as well as the hymns of leaves and cello music. Nature is both a consolation and a teacher—its beauty consoles, its patterns offer inspiration, but its sometimes too-quiet stillness offers a warning that nature, too, is in danger. This is a world in which all things under the stars are connected to each other and to the stars themselves: a potato field, a painting by Millet, Lays Potato Chips, music, Androcles and the lion, birds in a war-zone, the loneliness of a man on a train, two people in a relationship. The child-woman, even as the sun begins to set, is forever in the process of growing up and like a child, remains a wishful-thinker, forever hoping, as in “If-Quest” for an improved world. “We need these poems. We need to “Sing to the Boys” and to see “What He Saw.” Gordon’s amazing powers of attention and description open us to the world and each other in new ways, whether it’s to vivid glimpses of past and present in the now, or the myriad sorts of “Mysterious Pull” that we may barely notice. Read the poem “If Quest” with breakfast and it will follow you around all day.” —Ellen Doré Watson; author of pray me stay eager. “Gordon invites us on a languorous walk, guiding us with her gorgeous ‘new lens.’ Her taut lyrics and wanderer’s narratives reveal mystery without the distraction of mysticism. Memory intrudes and moves thick as knotweed, in elegies and in portraits of the dead or the lost, but this poet’s wisdom and desire move freely, inspiring us, consoling us with her celebrations of land, water, glint of mica. Gordon is a gift.” —Judith Vollmer: author of five books of poetry, including The Apollonia Poems; Four Lakes Poetry Prize of the University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. Vollmer’s poetry and criticism have appeared in Poetry International, The Georgia Review, Poet Lore, The Women’s Review of Books, and elsewhere. https://www.amyagordon.com/home/about monthly 0.5 2020-08-03 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/5f27588b53a7cb5390231601/1596414114378/Amy+Gordon-writer.jpg Home - About Amy https://www.amyagordon.com/home/books monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/5f2710401c66f5330f358a51/1621460646370/Amy+Gordon-Painting+the+Rainbow.jpg Home - Children's Books - Painting the Rainbow In the summer of 1965, thirteen-year-old Holly and her cousin Ivy accidentally discover family secrets no one has spoken of since World War II. Holly and Ivy have always been close, but this summer at the annual family reunion at the Greenwood lake house, the girls seem to be growing apart. Although they spend hours together painting an old rowboat, they don’t talk about things that are important...until they begin to find letters and pictures related to a Japanese boy named Kiyo. Uncovering the mystery of this ghostlike boy leads the girls to the many subjects no Greenwood adult will discuss, such as their uncle Jesse’s death during the war. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1ac2c76fb0824c45e43b3/1621460646378/Return+to+Gill+Park+-+Amy+Gordon.PNG Home - Children's Books - Return to Gill Park In the sequel to The Gorillas of Gill Park Gill Park is attacked by vandals, and Willy sets about to discover who is causing the trouble and why. He also comes to Gill Park and stays with her while he attends an unusual school. The eccentric owner of the park has left him a mystery to solve in his will. Willy's old enemy, Dillon Deronda, the famed pitcher of the Sharks, reappears, but this time he and Willy must work together to solve the mystery. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1acc6a5b5097f18169d9e/1621460646375/The+Gorillas+of+Gill+Park+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - The Gorillas of Gill Park Nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award and the Missouri Mark Twain Award; chosen as Best New Fiction for Grades 3-7 by The Regent Book Company. Willy Wilson goes to visit his costume-making Aunt Bridget, who lives by Gill Park in the city of Gloria. While she's making 30 gorilla suits, he's making new friends and learning to play baseball. One day, the eccentric owner of the park disappears. Willy sets out to find him. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a2deb9e2d1e010d1423598/1621460646382/Twenty+Gold+Falcons+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - Twenty Gold Falcons Mark Twain Award nominee. In this sequel to The Gorillas of Gill Park and Return to Gill Park, 12-year-old Aiden, miserable after the death of her father, must move with her mother to the city of Gloria. But soon Aiden and her new friends, Adam (a brainy worrywart) and Liesl (a free spirit who lives in a treehouse), are caught up in the search for rare and valuable coins—Gold Falcons—in the historic Ingle Building, where there's much more than meets the eye… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1a716587d9a0a00880369/1621878298211/The+Shadow+Collector%27s+Apprentice+-+Amy+Gordon.PNG Home - Children's Books - The Shadow Collector’s Apprentice Peculiar things are going on in the town of Medley over the summer of 1963, but it's hard for twelve-year-old Cully Pennyacre to figure out what it all means. His father has disappeared mysteriously, people don't seem like themselves, and his apprenticeship at Betty's Attic antique store gets stranger each day. The owner has a disturbing hobby of collecting people's shadows with a weird projectorlike machine and foul-smelling chemicals. He claims the process is harmless, but it leaves his victims listless and passive. Odd happenings become the norm as Cully, Batty's granddaughter Isabel, and Cully's best friend band together to get to the bottom of a secret black market in human shadows. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1b32e0e8303213fdfda2f/1621460646412/Star+Baby+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - Star Baby When 9-year-old Allie wishes on a star for a baby sister, she doesn't count on a Star Baby showing up. First of all, the baby is a boy, and he's weird: He can fly and expand like a balloon. Allie soon wishes she was a Lonely Only again. Illustrated by Margot Apple. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1aa83fd6d6520b21d4fc6/1621878370014/When+JFK+Was+My+Father+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - When JFK Was My Father It's the 1960s, and Georgia is in boarding school. To escape the dreariness of school life, she pretends that President John F. Kennedy is her true father. She also has conversations with the ghostly presence of the school's founder. Tim, a boy Georgia knew when she lived in Brazil, joins her in running away. Then Kennedy's tragic assassination forces Georgia to come to grips with reality. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1b14f0e8303213fdfbc1a/1621460646408/The+Talking+Bird+and+the+Story+Pouch+-+Amy+Gordon.PNG Home - Children's Books - The Talking Bird and the Story Pouch Storyteller, whose calling has been passed down to him from a long line of storytellers, looks for stories everywhere until a magical adventure to Blue Mountain teaches him that his storytelling powers are within himself. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1ade06bbf946c5d08c64b/1621460646395/The+Secret+Life+of+a+Boarding+School+Brat+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - The Secret Life of a Boarding School Brat Voted one of the best children's books of the year by the Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College of Education. Lydia Rice prowls her boarding school at night and becomes friends with Howie, the night watchman. Howie calls himself a "Silly Wizard" and makes Lydia his apprentice. He sets her the task of discovering who the girls are in a mural that is painted on one of the school walls. Lydia discovers some important things about herself as she sets about accomplishing the task. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1ae9bf44edf2f9fc74b2b/1621460646401/Magic+by+Heart+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - Magic by Heart An urban folktale/fairy tale. The Spanish teacher/witch Silvia Flores is attacked by giant pigeons. In return for rescuing her, Silvia promises deli-owners Sam and Belle she will grant any wish. They wish for a child, and in time, they are blessed with Arietta who has the gift of seeing into the hearts of people. Meanwhile, Hector, Silvia's brother, has found a mirror that allows him to borrow the face of anyone he wishes, and his intentions are not always good... https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/t/60a1af3bb0905607d7160861/1621460646404/Midnight+Magic+-+Amy+Gordon.jpg Home - Children's Books - Midnight Magic While Uncle Harry is babysitting his nephews for the weekend, the Tooth Fairy leaves a gold key meant for the Ogre in "Puss in Boots." https://www.amyagordon.com/home/theater-work monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f275ff89f77196040a1f5ce/1596416017029/Amy+Gordon-workshops-Wizard+of+Oz.JPG Home - Theater Workshops https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f27613d8686ab0463bd6bad/1596416335854/Amy+Gordon-workshop2.JPG Home - Theater Workshops https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f27613c8dd86201c12ee880/1596416343163/Amy+Gordon-workshop1.JPG Home - Theater Workshops https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f27613dfaf3d92da6b07f81/1596416376296/Amy+Gordon-workshop3.JPG Home - Theater Workshops https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f27613db416162a136c9e7b/1596416388698/Amy+Gordon-workshop4.JPG Home - Theater Workshops https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e94a9999d0f316bec709a79/5f275f957b9431047e31777f/5f27613d53a7cb53902420dc/1596416389392/Amy+Gordon-workshop5.jpg Home - Theater Workshops