Alison Granucci
Midsummer Moment
A naturalist by training, my poetics are embedded in a sense of wonder and earth-based spirituality I came to as a child and retained into adulthood. Deep noticing is my practice, how I open my attention so it moves both ways, the observer and the observed equally curious. An avid gardener, it’s in my woodland garden where I delve fully into a sense of place—where the eros of the natural world is teeming and where I come closest to experiencing the reciprocity of consciousness present in all beings and things. “Midsummer Moment” is my attempt to express a spiritual epiphany that happened in the garden: when “molecules dispersed” in the physical world and another world, just as real, became manifest. If only for a moment.
Artist Statement: Talking & Listening to Plants
Alison Granucci is a poet and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, the first U.S. literary speaker’s agency to represent poets. Her work is published or forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, Great River Review, Terrain, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, About Place Journal, and the anthology Little by Little, the Bird Builds Its Nest by Paris Morning Publications. Alison was awarded a 2023 Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale; and in 2022, the Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York for her contributions to the world of poetry.