Alive In These Woods
2026
Featured Poems
Praise
I read Alive in These Woods in one sitting and then read it again. At times I felt like crying, at other others, like laughing, but always I was dumbstruck by Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s authenticity, her tenderness, her lyrical brilliance. Each poem is like a painting I want to hang above my desk, or an insight I want to frame. Whether reflecting on midlife, marital struggles, motherhood, encounters with hawks and butterflies, or the ache of loneliness, she is also writing about the fundamental questions of existence: how do we live, find meaning, and transform ourselves in the midst of our troubled lives? — Nin Andrews
I love Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s work!! — Naomi Shihab NYE
Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s atmospheric poems are minutely and beautifully observed. They are also all caught up in the whirling metamorphoses effected by a singularly lyrical and alchemical imagination . A wonderful book for both the eye and the feeling mind. — Vijay Seshadri
The poems in Alive in These Woods reach into the natural world while also exploring family, aging, and mortality. These poems are clear-eyed, tender, alive to both darkness and light and to the fleetingness of both. — Suzanne Cleary
