This image is the cover for the book Dreaming Missouri

Dreaming Missouri

Each step we take, brings us closer to a moment in our life that may change it forever. Dreaming Missouri explores the nooks and crannies of a life; each moment filled with indelible, occasionally startling, events. Sometimes they happen to us. Sometimes they happen to others. But life impacts life, and Dreaming Missouriuses the lens of poetry to examine the ways in which our lives interconnect, the way that a place you’ve never been or someone you’ve never met, collides with you and changes who you are, forever.


From love to loss, from love that struggles to survive, to children who leave the nest emptied and lonely, to those whose names we read about in newspapers or hear about on the 6 o’clock news, this raw and throbbing collection of poems will draw you in and remind you that we are all vulnerable andsusceptible to the hazards of living.

Susan A. Katz

Susan A. Katz has been reading, writing, publishing, and loving poetry for over 50 years. She finds inspiration for her poems in the everyday business of living, of family joys and sorrows, and in the vast and wondrous landscape of the natural world. She conducted poetry workshops for poets in public service, and independently for over 30 years and has co-authored two textbooks on how to integrate the arts into school curriculums. Susan’s poetry reveals her intense passion for the living quality of language, and she believes that “poetry is the need to write beyond the limits of choice; the freedom to see beyond the limits of light.”

Austin Macauley Publishers