Ellen-Marie Silverman

Attuning Mind Ellen-Marie Silverman

In "attuning mind," thoughts and feelings become morsels to sample. Stacked up, three per page, the haiku offered here invite us to consider life and the living of it as a new adventure or to dive more deeply into an already lived one. Refreshing, provoking, amusing, stimulating, soothing, these verbal concoctions invite respite from same-old, same-old by cuing us to consider what else, what more, and why not for each of us singly and collectively. In this, her first volume of poetry, Ellen-Marie Silverman shares 108 haiku written from 2008 to 2015 about subjects ranging from loving to texting slang. The one topic that courses through them all is connectedness. Union desired, union thwarted, and union savored. Union the fabric of our lives. Novelist, essayist, photographer, painter, mother, and grandmother, Ellen-Marie Silverman first wrote haiku in 2008. In 2014, she began using the practice as a gateway to a deeper awareness of and appreciation for life and the organization of it. Ellen-Marie Silverman has lived most of her life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she pioneered open captioning for live theater as founder and CEO of TSS-The Speech Source, Inc. For many years before that, she worked as a speech pathologist and as a university professor.