Heaven of the Moment

Poetry. With clarity and grace John Morrison's HEAVEN OF THE MOMENT brings together the timeless and the particular. Relying on memory, humility, and a trust in the power of precise language, Morrison conjures and explores those moments that define and give meaning to a life. Among those moments, that seem to pass so quickly, in which everything happens and much is lost and found, moments of insight and decision, moments that shape the bonds of love and friendship, Morrison, in these evocative poems, gives us a measure of what matters. John C. Morrison earned his MFA from the University of Alabama and received the 2004 C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship from Literary Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including the Seattle Review, Natural Bridge, Cimarron Review, Southern Poetry Review, Good Foot, Poet Lore, The Sycamore Review and Hubbub. His poem "One Hundred Years Ago" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He directs the Writers in the Schools program for Literary Arts, in Portland, Oregon, and also teaches poetry at Washington State University, Vancouver. This is his first collection of poetry.