Woman in Metaphor

Editor, Maria Elena B. Mahler, collected twenty-seven poems from twenty-seven accomplished, published, and award winning poets from different parts of the world. She invited them to write a poem based on one of Stephen Linsteadt's paintings; paintings he created over the last thirty-five years.

The book contains an introduction and essay by Lois P. Jones, host of Pacifica Radio s Poet s Café (KPFK, Los Angeles 90.7 fm), and co-producer of the Moonday poetry reading series in Santa Monica. Lois is a four-time Pushcart nominee, and the winner of the 2012 Tiferet Poetry Prize and the 2012 Liakoura Prize. About this collection of art and poetry, Lois explains: When Stephen Linsteadt embarked on his metaphoric journey, he was striving toward a deeper sense of conception. If art implies a desire for the sacred it is, as Eckhart Tolle suggests, a portal or an access point which ultimately leads you to yourself. It is this portal that bids we enter, freely and without agenda. Each of the twenty-seven writers in Woman in Metaphor, all of various ages and beliefs practiced poets or sensitive observer, transversed this threshold, returning with their own compelling visions.

Poets: Sharon Alexander, Lia Brooks, Meg Cox, Elsa S. Frausto, Anita Harmon, Lois P. Jones, Kate Kingston, David Dodd Lee, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Indiana Jane Linsteadt, Stephen Linsteadt, Sylvia Linsteadt, Maria Elena B. Mahler, Genie Nakano, Katrina Naomi, Dean Pasch, Susan rogers, Mary Kay Rummel, Nancy Scott Campbell, Russell Thorburn, Maja Trochimczyk, Marci Vogel, Taylor Wade, Mel Weisburd, M.J. Whistler, Kath Abela Wilson, Mariano Zaro.