Elizabeth is a poet, performer, teacher and poetry advocate She served as Washington state's Poet Laureate, 2014-2016.
Elizabeth believes poetry is part of our birthright as humans. Among the many things poetry can do, she's most invested in its capacity to confront big questions with intelligence and feeling. Through its intimacy, slowness and layered silences, poetry can offer moments of stillness in a frantic, clamorous world.
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Austen, Elizabeth
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Recent Additions
Vespers March 5, 1977 with Mary Schramm – Meditations on the Cross
Vespers March 4, 1977 with Bob Randoy – Small Enough and Big Enough
Vespers March 3, 1977 with Ron Vignec – Peace through the Blood of the Cross
Vespers March 1, 1977 with Werner Janssen Epistle to Philemon
Vespers February 28, 1977 with Karen Nygaard – In Need of Sharing
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Holden wishes to express appreciation to PLU, Pacific Lutheran University, for their support of the Holden Audio Archive Project.
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