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Barbara A Meier is a poet, teacher, and mother, trying to write her way out of Kansas, anxiety and depression. Instead of indulging in feeling like garbage, trash, or rubbish, she chooses to examine the debris of her life by writing poems about it. After all as a forgiven, child of God, simultaneously saint and sinner, she is loved and cherished by her God. Barbara A Meier calls herself “the poet who lived by the sea” because she spent four years living on the wild and scenic southern Oregon Coast. It was an adventure she had always wanted to experience. From her vintage second story apartment, with a pink bathtub, she could look out her living room window and observe the wild lady who lived outside. She discovered the ocean could be a navy blue, a concrete slab, or a wild storm woman, throwing herself against the rock jetties and the everchanging beach. There she also encountered wildfires caused by lightning that ravished the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Days of smoke turning the sun and moon red, helicopters fueling up at the local airport, and her local school became the Red Cross evacuation shelter. Her first chapbook, “Wildfire LAL 6”, from Ghost City Press, grew out of two summers of wildfires caused by dry lightening. (Lightening Activity Level, with 6 being the worst.) (https://www.nwcg.gov/term/glossary/lightning-activity-level-lal) Her second chapback, “Getting through Gold Beach” , was all about the Gold Beach experience, where she taught kindergarten, met some great friends, and lived an isolated life she learned to survive. Great poems came out of that experience. She wrote about sleeper waves that washed a woman out to sea, seagulls getting hit by pickup trucks, ravens visiting the playground, the Hooskanaden Slide, and waves that looked like crazy horses. She retired from teaching just in time before COVID 19 hit. She moved to Colorado to spend time with her mother and sisters. Their quarantine was filled with playing Samba and Hand, Knee, and Foot card games and watching “Veronica Mars” and “Desperate Housewives”. She also put together her chapbook, “Sylvan Grove” at this time. These poems were about growing up on a Kansas farm, losing her father at 11, and coming back almost 40 years later to see Kansas in her rearview window lost and abandoned. She was a “sentinel of silage with a sunflower sword. Currently Barbara is living in Castle Rock, CO. She is kind of trying to like Colorado but she misses the ocean, rivers, and mountains of Southern Oregon. She is currently working on a chapbook that has her Oregon poems set on Sterling Creek. She spends her days tutoring, writing, and putting puzzles together. She still feels guilty about not working and spending time on puzzles. She doesn’t know where her next adventure lies but she is getting herself ready for it. She has been published by They Poetry Box, TL;DR, Pure Slush, Poetry Pacific, Metonym, deLuge Journal, Cacti Fur, Lines + Stars, Amethyst Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, The Fourth River, The Bangor Literary Journal, Red Wolf Journal, The Banyan Review, River and South Review, Capsule Stories, and Nightingale and Sparrow Magazine. Follow Barbara on : https://basicallybarbmeier.wordpress.com/about/home/ and https://www.facebook.com/poetwholivedbythesea

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