Phoebe Sparrow Wagner, formerly Pamela Spiro Wagner, is an award-winning poet, author and artist who wrote WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS (Cavankerry Press, 2009) poems about her life with schizophrenia, and co-author, with her sister, a psychiatrist, of DIVIDED MINDS: TWIN SISTERS AND THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH SCHkIZOPHRENIA, a memoir, which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and won the NAMI Outstanding Literature Award in 2006. It is still in print, and available at Amazon.Wagner second book, a first volume of poetry, is WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS, (2009) which is available at a discount now from Cavankerrypress.org. Her newest book of poetry and art, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (Green Writers Press/Sundog Poetry Center 2017) is also now available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Her work has been published in Tikkun, Midwest Poetry Review, and the New York TImes Sunday Magazine as well as the Hartford Courant and the LA Weekly, among other places. She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2.
Wagner’s art was on display in Connecticut area libraries in 2011 and 2012 and in Vermont, in Brattleboro, in 2016 and 2017. Many pieces are available for sale and charitable donation. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Thank you for this comment! Yes, I gave this Llama to my mother several years ago, and after her death last year I “inherited it” so I decided to perk her up with a new “saddle blanket” and coat of red paint. I do think she looks good, even at her advanced age,nO?
Here is something funny: when I read that you originally made this years ago, and you have now repaired and repainted it, I felt a rush of happiness inside. It makes me feel good to know that you aren’t only creating new things, you are also maintaining and revitalizing old things.
I guess I am feeling a bit old and in need of repair and revitalization at the moment. So I’m sentimental about things that are in the same condition. 😊
Thank you for this comment! Yes, I gave this Llama to my mother several years ago, and after her death last year I “inherited it” so I decided to perk her up with a new “saddle blanket” and coat of red paint. I do think she looks good, even at her advanced age,nO?
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That is so cool!
Here is something funny: when I read that you originally made this years ago, and you have now repaired and repainted it, I felt a rush of happiness inside. It makes me feel good to know that you aren’t only creating new things, you are also maintaining and revitalizing old things.
I guess I am feeling a bit old and in need of repair and revitalization at the moment. So I’m sentimental about things that are in the same condition. 😊
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