Reidyr, Dara

Dara Reidyr is the pen name of a poet whose love for poetry was rekindled after sixteen years of abandoning the craft. She was urged by a professor, as an undergrad literature student, to pursue writing upon graduation, but that never happened. After a long hiatus, she picked up the pen again at age thirty-nine and poured out the images from her mind onto the page. Her poems comes from visions, dreams, and images she "sees" on a daily basis. She loves to bring vivid imagery, life-like characteristics to nature, and a warm, subdued appeal to the worlds she creates on paper. Her poetic topics of...