SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS
“Beautifully crafted and luminous, these poems take the reader on an intimate and unforgettable journey of love found and lost, the joys of creativity, and the power of memory.”
Judith Liebmann, Ph.D., Poet Laureate of Branford, CT , author of EKPHRASIS
SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS
“If you’re ready to take a thoughtful, heartfelt stroll through memory and meaning, Sleeping with Ghosts is absolutely worth your time. Jen’s gentle but honest voice will stay with you long after the last page is turned.”
Kaecey McCormick, 2023 Connecticut Poetry Award Winner
SAY YES! TO YOUR CREATIVE SELF
“Author Mary O’Connor is obviously creative in many ways, one of which is to help readers be able to tap into their creative selves in more, well, creative ways. This is a book that simultaneously is emotionally calming and intellectually satisfying.”
Karen Rancourt, Ph.D., author and advice columnist (Ask Dr. Gramma Karen)
LOOK UP!
“A master at storytelling, Jen Payne brings us to the realization that the stories she shares are actually ours.”
Mary O’Connor, author, Life Is Full of Sweet Spots and Dreams of a Wingless Child
FROM MY BUTTON BOX
“There’s a gracious tenacity to these essays, an elegant insistence that meaning can be found amid loss, whether of a dear husband of fifty-eight years, or of sustaining companionship during a pandemic, or of a seemingly endless future in an octogenarian’s life.”
Robert Braile, a former book critic for The Boston Glob e
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING
“An unflinching account of our unshakeable relationship to the modern world around us, God, nature, and ourselves.”
David W. Berner, Author & NPR Contributor
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING
“Evidence of Flossing is a most unusual book, richly thoughtful and sorely, sorely needed.”
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, author, Letter from Italy, 1944
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING
“Jen Payne’s writings also underscore our role as stewards and the positive impact we can make on the world around us.”
Peter Raymond, Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studie s
LOOK UP!
“Jen Payne’s new book of musings, etc. serves to inspire and refresh. In the bustle of this 21st century, her book can serve as a dose of much-needed medicine for everyone!”
Joel Helander, author, Town Historian, Guilford, CT
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING
“Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind …is truth and beauty delivered to us in wide-eyed wonder by a child’s heart passionately in love with nature.”
Rita Kowats, Spirituality Without Borders
SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS
“Beautifully written and thoughtfully expressed, Payne’s irresistible voice will often make you hold back your tears, so heartbreakingly honest and bravely intimate is the storytelling.“
Judy Birke, former art critic for the New Haven Register and Art New England
LOOK UP!
“An intelligent, sensitive quest into the soul of one woman mirrors the searching hearts of us all. LOOK UP! is a beautiful book of solitude and inquiry into painful longings, but also into the glory of our lives.”
Dale Carlson, ALA Notable Book author and founder, Bick Publishing House
Three Chairs Publishing 