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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Well, I thank you again for the double follow! And thanks too for those kind, kind words on my art…I always feel a bit like a fraud, not a “real artist” because I have no training…you dig? But I try not to let that get in my way, even if I often often often feel it! Take care and be well,
Pamela
Thanks, Jon. I appreciate it! Even though it says I have a fair number of followers, I believe many of them are bots…Usually with a suspect address. So when I get a comment or acknowledgment from a real person, it is GREAT! Sincerely,
Pamela
Absolutely! I enjoy your artwork – it’s always so imaginative and interesting. It’s refreshing to browse through, especially contrasted with my generic portraits.
And I sort of figured out my confusion about not being subscribed already – that was your other site I was following. Somehow, I had forgotten to also follow this one
Well, I thank you again for the double follow! And thanks too for those kind, kind words on my art…I always feel a bit like a fraud, not a “real artist” because I have no training…you dig? But I try not to let that get in my way, even if I often often often feel it! Take care and be well,
Pamela
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Looking good, I love the patterns
(By the way, I could have sworn I was already following your blog…for some reason WP said I wasn’t. Fixed that!)
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Thanks, Jon. I appreciate it! Even though it says I have a fair number of followers, I believe many of them are bots…Usually with a suspect address. So when I get a comment or acknowledgment from a real person, it is GREAT! Sincerely,
Pamela
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Absolutely! I enjoy your artwork – it’s always so imaginative and interesting. It’s refreshing to browse through, especially contrasted with my generic portraits.
And I sort of figured out my confusion about not being subscribed already – that was your other site I was following. Somehow, I had forgotten to also follow this one
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