With my grandmother’s scissors
I cut the stems of wildflowers
to fit the smaller vase.
Yes! We are all
happier
now.

–George Ella Lyon

“This small book would make any subway ride a treat for 270 days until you start over.[…] as W.C. Williams said in “Asphodel That Greeny Flower” (paraphrased) it has all the news that people die miserably everyday for the lack of what is found there.”
-Grace Cavalieri,
Washington Independant Review of Books

George Ella Lyon’s father read poetry aloud when she was growing up and, while she enjoys all kinds of writing, poetry will always be central to her. Her fourth collection, Many-Storied House, will be out from the University Press of Kentucky in the fall.
(Adapted from her own bio as written for Lexington Poetry Month 2013)