Wheeling Poetry Series Presents: Bonnie Thurston & Cheryl  Denise

August 13, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Bonnie Thurston resigned a Chair and Professorship in New Testament, lives quietly in her home state of West Virginia, and has authored or edited 23 theological and 7 books of poetry, most recently Not Sonnets: Observations from an Ordinary Life (Cinnamon Press, 2022) and From Darkness to Eastering  (Wild Goose Press, 2017). She enjoys reading, walking, gardening, cooking, and classical music.

Cheryl Denise grew up in Elmira, Ontario. After nursing school, she worked three years as a volunteer public health nurse in La Jara, Colorado.  She fell for her future husband while helping to make suppers at the Homeless Shelter where he was volunteering. Now they live in Philippi, WV, in the intentional community of Shepherds Field in a timber framed home they built when they were young and brimming with energy. Cheryl is the author of the poetry books, Fences, (2022), What’s in the Blood  (2012), and I Saw God Dancing (2005), all published by Cascadia Publishing House, DreamSeeker Books, Telford, PA.  She has a spoken word poetry CD, Leaving Eden (2012) with music from Ben Regier, available on Amazon. Visit her on Facebook at Cheryl Denise, poet.