Earthquakes in Our Fingertips - Paperback

by Cheryl Lynn Peele (Author)

"Earthquakes in Our Fingertips" is a collection of poetry and drawings which draws us to answer the call to become active stewarts to the fragile, beautiful world and all it's inhabitants which we call home. "Whales migrate, stars rise bees are guided to each flower. Sap flows through every tree in tune to the pulse of the planets," is a quote from the poem "Earthquakes in Our Fingertips." Here is a way of joyfully viewing our place in the natural order of life on earth.

Author Biography

Cheryl Lynn Moyer-Peele is a retired FEMA inspector, an environmentalist, a poet, and a special education teacher working with 6th - 8th grade students with autism. She lives with her husband, Dr. Rhodes Peele with 5 cats and writes in Montgomery, Alabama. She has a masters in both Public Administration from Penn State in Public Administration and from Alabama State in Special Education. She has attended poetry workshops with Franz Wright in Provincetown, MA in Oct. 2005 and with Robert Pinsky in Camden N.J. at Rutgers in 2005. Her artwork spans 35 years of with her latest class in watercolors with Susan Blackshear. She has compiled and published two previous collections of poetry: "Hurricane Gumbo" in 2008 and "My Reincarnation": Poetry by Frances Gough in 2012. She is published in: www.child-autism-parent-cafe.com, Poetic Hours, Penwood Review, Birmingham Art Journal, Down in the Dirt, Distinguished Writings, Bell's Letters, Alabama Anthology 2007-'What Remembers Us' and Anthology of the Alabama Poet Society, 2006 'The Sampler', Crisis Chronicles: Online Library, Poetic Hours, Write On Magazine, LiterarySpot.com, and Goldfish Press. Cheryl has also recently been a consultant to the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence in addressing services needed for handicapped victims.