Taking Wing: Poems from the Oregon Outback to the Hudson Valley

You don't have to be a poetry lover to love this poetry book. Janice King takes the reader on a journey from her native Oregon to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York in her first book, Taking Wing.

Janice King was born in Pendleton, Oregon and was raised on a ranch just north of town. She attended The University of Oregon and lived in Eugene several years before moving to the Hudson Valley in New York. In the past fifteen years while working at The Golden Notebook bookstore, she has been active in education and the poetic arts as creator of a writing program at the Woodstock Day School, as a teacher of homeless and autistic children, and as a worker in the Poets in the Schools program.