Through the Gates is a series of evocative daily messages that guide the reader through the practice of counting the Omer. Weaving a spiritual memoir as well as offering guidance for the intricate discipline of the Omer, poet Susan Windle writes to a group of companions who share the same contemporary Jewish mystic for a teacher. She writes as a way of engaging in the spiritual discipline that marks the forty-nine days of the Omer, the seven weeks between the spring festival of Pesach (Pas...

Between the Doors is a collection of forty-one intense, tightly crafted and highly lyrical poems. Most of the poems in this book have been performed by this Philadelphia poet for many kinds of audiences. They are configured here for the printed page but are meant for the ear. Whether spoken in the quiet of the mind, or rendered aloud to another person or group of people, the lines of these poems call for listening, word by word, with attention to each phrase and to the silences between. Ma...

Already Near You is a collection of poetry by feminist poets Susan Windle and Ellen Ford Mason. These two women have been performing in the Philadelphia area with singer Annie Geheb since 1991 as Voices of a Different Dream. The poets document their journey together and present their most performed work. Rooted in the natural world, the poetry embodies the struggle to come into full voice in a culture that often veils the truth. The poems convey a vital and passionate connection to the ear...

Love Letters is a collection of forty-four poems. A secular invitation to communal prayer, the poetry in this book celebrates, as Susan says, the usness of us, the indisputable and essential nature of our belonging to one another and to the earth. The poems are vital acts of peace-making and justice-seeking to be used for nothing less than the salvation of our species.Loving letters, loving words, loving worlds and lines of poetry, loving earth and earthlings; eyes open, ears open,...