Judith Waller Carroll's poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac, published in numerous journals and anthologies, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her first collection of poems, What You Saw and Still Remember, was a runner-up for the 2017 Main Street Rag Poetry Award, and her chapbook The Consolation of Roses, won the 2015 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Prize. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and has been married to the right man for 54 years.

Other poems by Judith Waller Carroll in Verse Daily:

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Other poems on the web by Judith Waller Carroll:
Four poems
"Aria"
Three poems
"Cure for Ennui"
"Learning How to Write the Beginning"
"Lemon Bread"
"No account drifter"
Two poems

Judith Waller Carroll's Website.

About Ordinary Splendor:

"Judith Waller Carroll's Ordinary Splendor evokes the magic of everyday living with direct language as well as incisive metaphors and similes: 'the heron's long neck pointed like a compass needle.' 'Such a fuss about the stars, ' writes Carroll, a poet who sees clearly the many miracles that are often overlooked but who concludes that 'at the end, / this is what I will remember.' Imbued with insight and questions that celebrate a lifetime of experiences, these poems explore the ache of living with wide open eyes: 'Yes, I know. Somewhere, someone / is doing unspeakable things to another' but also with understanding that there is so much more."
—KB Ballentine

"Judith Waller Carroll is a master of imagery. And of nailing a poem in the last line."
—The Lascaux Review