Weavers of words

Looking up. (Berkeley, CA)

This assignment/invitation came to me through email... "Don't take too long to think about it. Name fifteen authors who've influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. They don't have to be listed in any order."

Here's my list of the first writers who came to mind. These are authors and poets and weavers of words... (I wouldn't be the same without them.)

1. Joanna Macy
2. Audre Lorde
3. Mary Oliver
4. Parker Palmer
5. Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
6. Anne Lamott
7. Adrienne Rich
8. Dionne Brand
9. Rainer Marie Rilke (translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows)
10. Ann-Marie MacDonald
11. John O’Donohue
12. Ivan Coyote
13. Anne Michaels
14. Nick Bantock
15. Pema Chödrön
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