Writing

I write. I keep writing. The result: more than a dozen books and numerous articles, short stories, and poetry in print and online, published in the U.S. and abroad. Nonfiction topics include dance, embodiment, healing, consciousness, mindfulness, and play. Poetry is somatic and ecoproprioceptive. My fiction tends toward magical realism. When creativity knocks, I answer the door to a verbal flow.

Morphs

The poetry of Morphs is comprised of a initial poem which I sent to Grant Jenkins with the instruction of morphing it in any way wanted. He sent me his morphed version for me to further morph. The book features 35 morphs and our conversation about what took place.

A limited number of signed copies are available. Contact me to purchase one.

Morphs by Cheryl Pallant, book cover, poetry collection, writing

Into Stillness

Kinetic poetry swirls historical fragments with dream, memory, flesh, violence, humor and ecstasy. In prose-like poems that surprise linguistically with their twists of meaning, Into Stillness explores the tension between self and other, existence and death, the word and its silence. Buy on Amazon.

Uncommon Grammar Cloth

This series of experimental poems, written in continuous prose-like paragraphs but with the rhythmic attentiveness of verse, allows the ever-shifting present to emerge like various threads of a fabric in the making. Familiar word patterns transmute suddenly with an associative leap or syntactic twist or a play on sound, enacting the sense of the body in motion, the self seeking the other, or catching glimpses of the divine. Buy on Amazon.

Chapbooks

The Phrase

A fabulist story about a young phrase that leaves home.

Declaration of Independence

The famous national document poetically recast through erasure and collage.

Poetry By Chocolate

A poetry collage made from the tantalizing text on chocolate wrappers.

Select Publications

Prose

Several articles on healing and ecosomatics in Spirituality & Health Magazine

“Bringing Ecosomatics to Yoga” in Yoga Magazine

“Taos Conversation” in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices

“Poetry Saying,” Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, also in Zero Point Poesis

“Writing From the Body: A Blend of Intelligences” Multiple Intelligences Oasis

“Dancing Evolutionary Spirituality,” Dance, Movement & Spiritualities. Essay on Zen, Judaism, dance and somatics.

“The Essence of Forever,” This Land Press: how I fell in love with the work of T.C. Cannon

“Passing Over,” This Land Press: reflection on spirits and my cat in South Korea

“Write From the Body,” The Loft. A blog post about my somatic writing technique taught at The Loft.

“Torment Relieved in Song,” This Land Press, article about poet John Berryman

“Writing From the Body,” All Things Healing. Combining writing and movement to explore the language of the body .

“Gifting Poetry: Teaching Students to Read Poetry Closely,” Teachers & Writers. This essay led to an award as Bechtel Finalist.

AWP Pedagogy Papers

“Moving Into Writing,” Creativity Portal

Contact Quarterly

Natural Awakenings

Journal of Process-Oriented Psychology

ArtsInk

High Performance

Shamans Drum

Anthologies

“Dancing Evolutionary Spirituality,” Herstories:Call of the Soul in Dance Research, a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe

“Embodying Change,” Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World. This anthology asks, “In a time of environmental crisis, how can we live right now?” Other contributors include Alice Walker and Barbara Kingsolver.

An Introduction to the Prose Poem ” “Yonder Zongs” A wide range of models and stategies for the prose poetry. Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Russell Edson and Pablo Neruda

“A Declaration of Independence,” Letters to the World. An anthology with contributors from Wom-po, The Discussion of Women’s Poetry LISTSERV, founded by Annie Finch. A bountiful collection of writers including Camille Dunghy, Eve Enszer, Allison Hedge Coke.

“The Pizza,” Food for Thought. Writing about food by contributors such as Herman Melville, Charles Simic, and Marge Piercy.

“A Neighborhood Bar,” Inspired by Drink. Writing about drinks by contributors such as Edgar Allen Poe, John Updike, and Daisetz T. Suzuki.