Lana Hecthman Ayers has shepherded over a hundred poetry volumes into print as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, The MacGuffin and others. Her ninth collection, The Autobiography of Rain, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press.

Other poems by Lana Hecthman Ayers in Verse Daily:
December 9, 2023:   "Priorities" "Swoosh of my grandmother's small..."
September 12, 2023:   "Flood" "With water gushing..."
December 15, 2017:   "Baba Yaga Advises Red Riding Hood" "I've pulled the plow..."
March 19, 2017:   "'V' from Manhattan Island" "To investigate the universe, converse with Aristotle..."

Other poems on the web by Lana Hecthman Ayers:
Seven poems
"When You Say You're from New York City,"
"Twenty Twenty"
"Baba Yaga Gives Red Riding Hood an Earful"
"My River Runs"
"Whisper, He's Driving"
"Cast"
"Light Always Remembers"
"A Few Things I've Learned This Week"
"Window in Late January"

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About Overtures:

"These poems have arisen like miracles of what the book calls 'today's grace'—something elusive in life, but indelible in poems. This is a book co-authored by many poets, their visions woven here anew…and by the sea, varieties of shore light opening and winking into shadow as the sky changes. The book can be a guide and companion for every life where emotions flood and ebb, where clarity and peace may reside in words, even when the heart falters."
—Cecilia Woloch

"Open this book and step into the rainy specificity of Tillamook County, Oregon, where pelicans soar through salt air 'like an army of animated scissors' while a poet measures suffering, fear, kindness, and the poet's worth. Stoics believed it was the little things that added up to a meaningful life. In Overtures, Lana Hechtman Ayers gathers these 'Small Things That Aren't' and refuses to sentimentalize. In conversation with many poets before her—Oliver, Limón, Kaminsky—Ayers cuts through self-doubt and pandemic-induced isolation: writing, and making her overture to us all, 'to write more poems.'"
—Kim Stafford

"Open this book and step into the rainy specificity of Tillamook County, Oregon, where pelicans soar through salt air 'like an army of animated scissors' while a poet measures suffering, fear, kindness, and the poet's worth. Stoics believed it was the little things that added up to a meaningful life. In Overtures, Lana Hechtman Ayers gathers these 'Small Things That Aren't' and refuses to sentimentalize. In conversation with many poets before her—Oliver, Limon, Kaminsky—Ayers cuts through self-doubt and pandemic-induced isolation: writing, and making her overture to us all, 'to write more poems.'"
—Nancy Pagh