Cynthia Atkins is the author of Psyche’s Weathers and In The Event of Full Disclosure, and the "Still-Life With God." Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including, Alaska Quarterly Review, Apogee, BOMB, Cleaver Magazine, Cultural Weekly, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Florida Review, Flock Lit, Green Mountains Review, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, Rust + Moth, Sweet: A Literary Confection, SWWIM, Tampa Review, and Verse Daily, and nominated for Pushcart and Best of The Net. Formerly, Atkins worked as the assistant director of the Poetry Society of America. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the VCCA. Atkins teaches creative writing at Blue Ridge Community College and lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County VA with her family.

Other poems by Cynthia Atkins in Verse Daily:
April 3, 2014:   "As Seen From Above" "While your mind is singing..."
August 5, 2013:   "Table" "For once, tell us your troubles..."

Books by Cynthia Atkins:

Other poems on the web by Cynthia Atkins:
"My Body is a Vessel"
Three poems
"TV"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"Imaginary Friends"
"When Homer Roams"
"Elegy for a Scarecrow"

Cynthia Atkins's Website.

Cynthia Atkins on Twitter.

About Still-Life with God:

"In Cynthia Atkins' Still-Life With God,the material world becomes a rubric for faith, all its threats andlosses a constant test for what we believe in and what we can bear. With packed lyricism and astonishing leaps, Atkins studies how easily Godmanifests as a new object in our lives, and how quickly the mutableself, starts becoming an image that can be 'shared and liked.' Althoughthe dangers of the world sear through everything, there's also areverence for the "exquisite human machine of pathos and debris." Justas a door compels us to knock, these poems make you sit up, astonished, a little wild with awe."
—Traci Brimhall

"'Every day is triage,' writes Cynthia Atkins, and indeed, Still-Life with God is full of damage and ache, but also a spirit willing to look forsomething holy where such things are difficult to find. Here, God is awishing well, a medicine cabinet, a bullet, and an alibi. These aresharp, bold poems by a poet unafraid to search for the divine, andunafraid to tell you what that search might yield."
—Matthew Olzmann

"Cynthia Atkins' Still-Life With God confronts our world with a large open heart. Spiritual, emotional,creative, and technological, Atkins' thoughtful narrative brings us into precise moments where "train whistles/record the distance of ourloneliness and a boy is sailing/a paper airplane into the vast/stratosphere of science and love." How could one not read poems withtitles like, "The Internet Is The Loneliest Place On The Planet," "GodIs A Treasure Hunt," and "Dear Art"--they draw us in and make us return. Atkins' insightful exploration of the past and present, the self andthe self-portrait, help us all find our own place a little easier in the whole and the divine. A beautiful collection to hold."
—Kelli Russell Agodon