Writing
I write all kinds of stuff: poems, short stories, essays, articles, blogs, academic papers and grants! However, I rely on poetry. I find it to be a doorway into a deeper connection with myself and with the world around me. Poetry helps me to find meaning and gratitude in my daily life. It is a language that can express our inner experiences and that kind of attention brings deeper insight into the mundane.
My writing workshops are designed to share this experience with others so they can use creative writing as a tool for centering, reflecting and for personal growth. The workshops are designed for everyone. Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer, but have wanted to experience the creative writing process, you will feel right at home. The focus of these workshops and groups is on the process as a tool, though most people seem to leave surprised at the quality and creativity they are able to express in this setting.
Check out the Workshops and Events page if you're interested in signing up for an upcoming Workshop.
My Book
If There is a Center, No One Knows Where It Begins
Published by Art Juice Press Editions in 2008, this book is a collection of poems that follow the heart in an exploration of science, nature and soul.
...a breathtaking tribute to the seasons of the spirit. With irrepressible zest, she takes us on a Sacred Sight/Seeing tour; from the “vastness of cosmic womb space” to the delicate beauty of the hummingbird's egg shell.
Boston Literary Magazine
Other Select Published Works
Poetry
Behind the Wind
- Future Cycle Poetry, 2011Restless
- Future Cycle Poetry, 2011It Makes All the Difference
- CAPER Literary Journal, 2010This Poem Is Not About Me
- RATTLE #34, Winter 2010My Favorite Ways to be Rejected
- Boston Literary Magazine, Fall 2010Pulse
- White Whale Review, Issue 2.2, 2010Designed to Catch the Enormous
- White Whale Review, Issue 2.2, 2010I Loved Your Appendix
- Boston Literary Magazine, Summer 2010Our
- Arts Perspective Magazine, Winter 2008Held
- Arts Perspective Magazine, Spring 2006PIscine Vision
- Mississippi Review Online (Blip Magazine Archive), 1998Short Fiction
The Cafe Patio
- Mississippi Review Online, V 6, No 1, Winter, 2000.Articles
Mark Montgomery: Juxtaposing Land and Figurative Image
- SW Colorado Arts Perspective Magazine. Fall, 2007.Reshaping the Body In Collaboration
- Arts Perspective Magazine, Fall 2010From My Blog
Press Reviews
Renee Podunovich’s visions are transparent panes allowing the reader the warmth and light of a larger view. She returns from journeys beyond the daily world with medicine which explodes in us ‘with no limits, other than the filter of our hearts’. Her passionate words form conduits through which we can meet our higher selves.
Cynthia West, author, "Rainbringer" and "The New Sun"
She truly mirrors the unbound artist in us all, snaps us back to hyper-reality by looking just beyond the edge of the scene where she sees a slight movement in the shadows. Fearlessly, Renee constructs meaning from the vapors of her heart using firm language while aligning syntax, line breaks and precise metaphor to cut us loose in a conceptual installation of weaving verse.
Sonja Horoshko, Art Juice Press Editions
She takes us traveling simultaneously inside and out; noting, reporting on observations of the mystical experience and the natural in the poetic company of her rational mind.
Mead Bullington
