Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
These illustrated verses are a witnessing of one's self, in all that we have, in all that we've lost, in all that's on its way to us.
Processes: A Meditation unravels a small, unclouded window into a life in reflection of itself, as energy felt through the body, with the intent to bring the reader back to their awareness; their spiritual center.
Terra Oliveira is a writer and visual artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge Press, Protean Magazine, Paperbark Magazine, and elsewhere. She is of Azorean-Portuguese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, and mixed Eurasian descent.
Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest (judge: Clementine von Radics) in 2016. Terra was the Artist-In-Residence at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at The Great Wall of China in March of 2017, and she was also a writer-in-residence at the Hope Villa Artist Residency in the Western Ghats of India in Spring 2016. During the week, you can find her managing two bookstores in the North Bay. She believes in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally.
Collection of illustrations and micropoetry. 60 pages (Color). Published by Recenter Press in September 2017.
Press:
The Strange is Beautiful (Review)