Stewart S. Warren

Stewart Warren takes on the big themes-the war and peace we carry within us and how these forces play out in our relationships with family, lovers, the earth and the global village. This is a brave book, an unflinching exploration of how we love and fail to love.-Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

"Stewart Warren's writing evokes the mesmerizing landscape in which he lives, the aliveness of its present, the mystery of its past, the seen and the unseen. With unequivocal honesty his words birth stirring and sensuous images, calling for our humanity and deepest compassion. This latest collection of poetry is deeply visceral, stirs the blood, enlivens the skin and provokes the mind..."-Cindy Novelo, Musician and Songwriter

In The Sea Always Near, Warren's poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet-from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma.Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape. He reminds us we are Star Stuff. But he's also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world.These wonderful poems in which "...grace has turned every corner..." and " t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever" speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not.-Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry

Written over a period of nearly twenty years and compiled at Stewart Warren's home at Nido del Cielo in the Piedra Lumbre Basin, The Song of It is a collection of poems and short personal stories that describe the author's relationship to the land, people and spirits of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado-a region, and way of life, sometimes referred to as Norte o.

The anthology project, conceived by Maria Morales McConnell of Del Norte, Colorado and edited by Arthur Washburn and Stewart S. Warren, is a living document and a deed to the land belonging to those bold enough to live their stories and share them straight.Included here are poems, essays and flash fiction written by people spanning eighty years in age, over two thousand miles in distance, and a multitude of cultural and class differences, but having one central experience in common-a desire to walk to the river and find other like-hearted human beings gathered there. This collection, then, is for people who read with their whole body and mind.