Lucille Lang Day is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks. Her most recent collection is Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place (Blue Light Press, November 2020). She has also coedited two anthologies, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, and has published two children's books and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the founder and publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books.

Other poems by Lucille Lang Day in Verse Daily:
October 18 2015:   "Elegy for the Hall of Health" "Little museum with the heart that opened..."

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Other poems on the web by Lucille Lang Day:
"Tooth Painter"
Two poems
"Pageant Bouquet"
"The Poem's Feet"
Two poems
Three poems
Seven poems

Lucille Lang Day's Website.

Lucille Lang Day According to Wikipedia.

Lucille Lang Day on Twitter.

About Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place:

"The seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems recreate and preserve images of a beauty that is on the verge of disappearing or has already disappeared. Sometimes it is the beauty of the rain forests of Costa Rica or the birds of the Galápagos or that of cities like Athens, San Miguel de Allende, or Venice in flood. Sometimes it is a beauty that exists only in a single word such as 'Oregon, ...from wauregan, an Algonquian word for ‘beautiful river.'' Yet for all the beauty she evokes, Day does not shy away from difficult topics like global warming, genocide, regret, loss, and death. The result is a remarkable collection of poems that are deeply layered, deeply felt, and deeply moving."
—Mary Mackey

"In Birds of San Pancho, Lucille Lang Day looks at a bird and wonders 'about the meaning of each moment / and how to hold it...' The language is simply gorgeous throughout the book: 'The ocean, a turquoise taffeta shawl, / falls on sand shoulders lit by a moon / radiant as a trillion-ton pearl / on a silken scarf of pink and maroon.' One poem ends, 'igniting a blaze of amazement,' and that is what this book does, with poem after poem making us aware of the glories of the natural world which we are rapidly losing, forcing us to wake up, and go down on our knees in awestruck wonder."
—Barbara Crooker

"What a rich and celebratory book is Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho. A trained scientist as well as a prolific poet and anthologist, she brings to her experience a vast curiosity, an intimate knowledge of flora and fauna, and a keen appreciation for the things of this world—travel, food, weather, the manifold creatures, love."
—Ann Fisher-Wirth

"Very few poets possess the acute observational power on display in Lucille Lang Day's Birds of San Pancho. In lyric, narrative, and meditative forms, Day's curiosity and love for the world radiate from every page. The life affirming vision in this book makes it a perfect read for our fraught time."
—David Roderick