Friday August 21, 6 – 7:30 pm
Held in-person at the Jung Center
Book signing following
$30

Author Carolyn Kelley Williams will read selections from the recently published book of her poetry and stained glass. Seasons of the Spirit: Visions of the Eightfold Year takes its title from the eight seasonal festivals celebrated by the ancient Celtic people, an agricultural people who patterned their lives on events of the heavens and the planting and harvesting times. Believing these cycles of the Eightfold Year still affect our lives, even if, as urban persons, we don’t consciously live them as the ancients lived them, Kelley has created stained-glass images for the eight festivals, arranging her poetry in accordance with their psychological and spiritual meaning, describing how they were traditionally celebrated and suggesting how we, as modern persons, might be able to celebrate them, putting ourselves into harmony with the turning seasons, deepening and enriching our connection to the earth and its cosmic cycles.

About the Instructor
Carolyn Kelley Williams is a published poet, novelist, and stained-glass artist. Her books of poems, Inexhaustible Offering: Lincoln Park Mornings, and Rebirth of Wonder: Epiphanies at Winter Solstice, and her novel, The Realm of Persephone. are available on Amazon and in bookstores, as is her latest book, Seasons of the Spirit: Visions of the Eightfold Year. For more than 30 years, she was Senior Editor of Publications in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School and Managing Editor of The International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. She is a certified leader for Intensive Journal workshops, a writing method created by depth psychologist Dr. Ira Progoff to help people navigate times of transition and evoke creativity. She leads Intensive Journal workshops on Zoom for the Jung Center and other venues. She lives in Arizona, where she continues her writing, teaching, and stained-glass art.