title: Wyatt Townley
text: # Wyatt Townley
  
  Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015).
  
  ## Biography
  
  Townley is a fourth-generation Kansan and she currently lives in Shawnee Mission.
  
  ## Kansas Poet Laureate
  
  Through the Kansas Humanities Council, Townley is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings.
  
  ## Honors and awards
  
  * Nelson Poetry Book Award for The Afterlives of Trees
  * Kansas Notable Book for The Afterlives of Trees
  * The Pushcart Prize, nominee
  * To the Stars poetry contest winner, sponsored by the Kansas Arts Commission ["Centering the House" and "Inside the Snow Globe" selected from The Afterlives of Trees]
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Perfectly Normal (Brooklyn, NY: The Smith), 1990. ISBN 0-9122-9287-3
  * The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. ISBN 0-8212-2794-7
  * Yoganetics: Be Fit, Healthy, and Relaxed One Breath at a Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco), 2003. ISBN 0-0605-0224-X [reprinted in 2004 by HarperCollins World]
  * Kansas City Ballet: The First Fifty Years (Kansas City, MO: Rockhill Books), 2007. ISBN 1-9334-6643-X
  * The Afterlives of Trees: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. ISBN 0-9828-7522-3
  
  ## Anthologies
  
  * Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (ed.). Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2011. ISBN 0-9828-7525-8
  