New Poetry Collection (July 2024)
Gracious Nature:
Poems on Earth and Life
*BOOK REVIEWS*
“Editor’s Pick”
from Publishers Weekly Booklife
5/5 Stars: Review
from Readers’ Favorite
5/5 Stars: Review
from Literary Titan
Print and digital editions will be available at Amazon (July 2024).
Official description:
“From the acclaimed author of the May We Learn from the Earth and The Humbling and Other Poems comes this highly-inspired and insightful poetry collection that celebrates and contemplates nature, living things, and the environments of Earth.
In addition to over 100 beautiful, accessible, and memorable poems, the author includes a brief essay on the importance of nature poetry.”
An accessible yet profound poetry collection for all lovers of poetry and nature.
Poetry & Essay Collection (2023)
May We Learn from the Earth:
Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment
*BOOK REVIEWS*
*EDITOR’S PICK*
Publishers Weekly
(6/26/23 print issue)
5/5 Stars: Review
from Readers’ Favorite
5/5 Stars: Review
from Literary Titan
The Independent Review of Books
Print editions available at Amazon (paperback) and Barnes & Noble (hardcover).
Digital editions also available: Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Kobo, Scribd
Official description: “Following his acclaimed debut, The Humbling and Other Poems, Tiess delivers clear, captivating, and compassionate poetry and concise essays contemplating Earth and nature.
From the opening poems, we become reacquainted with the natural realm, where we may muse on mountains, reflect on rivers, philosophize in forests, and celebrate creation everywhere.
As we journey into Earth, the Beautiful, from canyons to coasts and valleys to vistas, we grow more mindful of the environment, ecology, and eventually Earth, the Besieged.
Insightful, inspiring, and impassioned with a lyrical love of life, this timely and truthful collection can be enjoyed by nearly everyone, from budding poetry enthusiasts and nature lovers to environmental champions and beyond.
In hopes of encouraging environmental interest and awareness, the author offers optional reading content, including a series of brief but thought-provoking essays meditating on nature, a concise glossary of Earth terms, reading suggestions, and more for readers to discover and explore.”
Debut Poetry Collection
The Humbling and Other Poems
2022)
Print editions available at Amazon (paperback) and Barnes & Noble (hardcover).
Digital editions also available: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, more.
Official description: “An ‘Editor’s Pick’ in the June 20, 2022 issue of Publishers Weekly, this masterful, inspiring, and critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection features over 100 memorable poems on humility, hope, love, justice, peace, and more.”
From the Author: my first poetry collection covers a wide variety of topics and poetic styles which can appeal to both new and experienced readers of poetry.
In the interests of promoting poetry and making it more accessible to readers, I include some “bonus materials” at the end of my book: a glossary of poetry terms, three concise essays, a brief autobiography, poetry reading recommendations, and more.
About My Ecopoetry + Other Poetry
For my ecopoetry and nature poems, please look to my forthcoming book, May We Learn from the Earth: Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment (July 2023).
Additional ecopoems, nature poems, and more can be found on my poetry feed at AllPoetry.com.
What’s an ecopoem? Ecopoetry explores aspects of the environment with a particular emphasis on ecology/ecological considerations and/or environmental issues.
Another way to think about it: an “ecopoem” is a kind of “nature poem,” but not all “nature poems” are ecologically-minded or focused on topics such as environmental conservation, pollution, natural resources (and their depletion), natural habitats, biomes, extinction of species, or deforestation.
As a lifelong poet, I remain devoted to the reading, writing, education, and appreciation of the art of poetry in all its varieties – formal (classic + invented forms), rhyming, blank verse, metrical, vers libre, concrete, haiku, from the brief to the epic.
I endeavor to write accessible yet intriguing and audibly enjoyable poems. I try to invest much attention in all aspects of a poem, including its sound (rhythm, assonance, consonance, periodic rhymes), imagery, metaphors and similes, symbolism, occasional allusions, and more.
While I’ve been writing poetry since the 1980s, I published my first general poetry collection, The Humbling and Other Poems, in April 2022.
My second poetry collection (forthcoming in 2023) will focus mostly on my nature poems and ecopoetry.
About the Poet
Recognized for crafting clear, creative, and compelling poems, Robert J. Tiess has been writing and publishing poetry since the 1980s, and he’s been working at popularizing poetry and promoting literature since the 1990s.
Robert is a SUNY New Paltz graduate, where he earned his degree in English Literature, and he is a lifetime resident of New York State, where he has enjoyed a fulfilling career in public library service.
In 2022, his critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection, The Humbling and Other Poems, became available in print and electronic editions.
His second book, May We Learn from the Earth: Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment, will be published in July 2023.
About the Poetry
Robert’s poetry is unique, accessible, organic, evolving, expansive, motivated with a humanity and a humility and yet a passion for truth, a persistent zest for life and love, and a perpetual hopefulness.
Robert embraces, celebrates, and respects the diversity of poetry around the world. He admires many poets from antiquity up to the present, including…
- Basho
- Billy Collins
- Mary Oliver
- Ada Limón
- Joy Harjo
- Maya C. Popa
- Diane Seuss
- Victoria Chang
- Joseph Fasano
- Jose Hernandez Diaz
- Maya Angelou
- Amanda Gorman
- Wendell Berry
- Ted Kooser
- Robert Pinsky
- Louise Glück
- W. S. Merwin
- Langston Hughes
- Robert Frost
- Emily Dickinson
- T. S. Eliot
- E. E. Cummings
- Walt Whitman
- Pablo Neruda
- Anne Sexton
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- John Keats
- Homer
- Ovid
- Dante
- William Shakespeare
- and many others
A more comprehensive list of recommended poets can be found in The Humbling and Other Poems.
My Websites & Social Media
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