Rebecca Winning

“Every poem leaves me with a smile or a tear.”

Rebecca Winning gives the reader unique poems filled with seeable images, mystery, personal loves and glimpses of nature. These poems are best read with time to ponder, perhaps when drinking a coffee or tea. They are to be savored like eating a really rich piece of chocolate cake. Every poem leaves me with a smile or a tear, wanting answers, wanting more. A joy to read.

— Barb Schwegman, author of nightwalking and Poems of Central America

“You never know where they’ll take you. And you never want to leave.”

Rebecca Winning’s poems have a way of planting you—in a sisterly relationship, in a blind man’s skin, in a Colorado landscape in Spring—that puts you in the center of the seed, makes a garden of the world that surrounds you, and makes that world impossible not to celebrate.

This garden, these parties of her poems reach far, wide, and deep in every direction—you never know where they’ll take you. And you never want to leave.

— Bruce Gelfand, writer, teacher, coach and editor of Brighter the Light, Deeper the Shadow

“A clear-eyed observer of nature… a soul haunted by the divine.”

Rebecca Winning writes with sensitive precision and an open, generous heart, a spirit willing to take in all that makes up our beautiful and broken world without exception.
These poems compress worlds of desire, longing, trepidation and hard-won acceptance into taut phrasings and crisp, haunting images. A fine skepticism permeates these tough-minded meditations on death and love, yet they often resolve into compelling celebrations of life. These poems will touch your own pain and remind you of the consolation and transcendent joy abiding in everyday moments. Like Emily Dickinson, Winning is a clear-eyed observer of nature as well as a soul haunted by the divine.

— Karen Lee Osborne, award-winning author of Carlyle Simpson and Hawkwings