Books

Collections,
in progress and forthcoming.

I

Forthcoming

Shanti Arts Publishing

Book cover: The Long Road Out of Eden, poems by Renee Dionne Mies (Shanti Arts).

The Long Road Out of Eden

Departure, return, and the inheritances we carry.

A debut poetry chapbook. Poems of departure and return: orchards, lakes, weather, and the quiet inheritances we carry away from the places that made us.

II

Manuscript

The Bone Orchard at the Edge of the Sky

Impermanence, repair, and a luminous edge.

A poetry chapbook manuscript exploring impermanence, repair, and the luminous edge between landscape and memory.

III

In progress

Growing Up in Traverse City

A northern Michigan childhood, in poems and prose.

A hybrid poetry and memoir, full-length manuscript drawn from a northern Michigan childhood: its blizzards, orchards, and the long shoreline of Lake Michigan.