- Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare
towhee [Pipilo crissalis] wakes a human
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woman in red sweater to hummingbird
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for JS
Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), and Practical Water (2009), and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (1982), Autumn Sojourn (1995), and The Firecage (2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, coedited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, and is also involved in nonviolent activism as a member of CodePink.