Julie Cadwallader-Staub lives near Burlington, Vermont. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. Her first collection of poems, Face to Face, was published by Cascadia Publishing House in June 2010. Read reviews at Amazon.com and add your own! You can purchase Face to Face on either Cascadia’s website or Amazon. In Burlington, you can find it at Phoenix Bookstore and, in Shelburne, at Shelburne Farms’ Welcome Center. Joy and Guinea Pig which Garrison Keillor read on The Writer’s Almanac, are in this collection, in addition to sixty other poems. Julie’s poem Reverence has been anthologized in Garrison Keillor’s book Good Poems: American Places.

NEW!

October 21, 2012 —
“Midlife” was featured on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.

May 24, 2012 —
“Looks” was featured on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.

Spring 2012 —
The Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has chosen Map to be part of its Literary Selections on Cartography series. Check out the beautiful work that is part of the series.

January 26 – 29, 2012 —
Guinea Pig and This Month were featured at Topeka High School’s production of Cancer: Inspiration and Hope. See the video here.

MIDLIFE

By Julie Cadwallader-Staub

This is as far as the light
of my understanding
has carried me:

an October morning
a canoe built by hand
a quiet current

above me the trees arc
green and golden
against a cloudy sky

below me the river responds
with perfect reflection
a hundred feet deep
a hundred feet high.

To take a cup of this river
to drink its purple and gray
its golden and green

to see
a bend in the river up ahead
and still
say
yes.