Becoming the Blue Heron

<p>Terri Kirby Erickson’s poems have appeared in hundreds of publications including <em>Poet’s Market</em> Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” <em>The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor</em> and <em>Verse Daily</em> and have earned the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award Atlanta Review International Publication Prize a Gold Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a Nautilus Silver Book Award. In <em>Becoming the Blue Heron</em> Erickson's fifth collection of poems she proves again why she has secured her spot in poetry's lexicon. From personal insights to front porch stories these poems read like a conversation with a dear friend who tells it like she sees it in simple words that only a deep and wise understanding can bring together.</p>