• Keeping Watch on Soap Creek

Keeping Watch on Soap Creek

By Shannon Vesely
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Poet Shannon Vesely is keeping watch.


As a milkweed pod bursts with filaments, a muskrat carves a solitary path across a pond, and a woman and her lover meet in a field of Sandhill cranes at dusk-she is there.


In this collection of poems, Vesely shares the legacy, land, and people who have shaped her life. From the sweeping prairies of Nebraska to the wooded hills of her Iowa home, she invites readers into her world, encouraging them to see with fresh eyes. As keeper of the watch, she focuses on the ordinary things and experiences that matter deeply.


Keeping Watch on Soap Creek by Shannon Vesely celebrates the small moments that offer big rewards.

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Publisher / Brand: Atmosphere Press

    About the Author

  • Shannon Vesely

    Shannon Vesely is a retired English teacher who’s written thousands of words in the margins of student compositions. Now, she’s writing the poems she carried in her head for decades. Her debut collection, The Way of Things, won the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry in 2022, and her second collection, Keeping Watch on Soap Creek, will be published in March 2025. She has designed and led creative writing workshops throughout the Midwest. Her blog (www.shannonsvesely.com) celebrates the uncommon value of common things. Shannon lives north of Bloomfield where she shares an acreage with her husband, an army of farm cats, and a pond of well-fed catfish.

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