About Judith
JUDITH ADAMS is a Whidbey Island poet, born in Suffolk, England. Her poetry has been featured in the anthology The Poetry of Dogs, published by J.A. Allan. Adams has performed her poetry with music around the Northwest, including a reading at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Her poems have been selected and used in original dance choreography in NY. Her poetry books include Crossing the Line, I Wanna Die Nice and Easy, Love letters Only and Springing the Hill, which placed in the Reader’s Digest Poetry Book Contest. She has also recorded audio CD’s of these books and of her performances. Apart from her poetry, Judith has written two children’s books, published by Wynstones press “Looking For a Fairy” and “Hedgehog's Midnight Milking”, and her latest children’s book “The Rag Box Cat”
Adam's background includes training in voice performance. She has worked over the years as a Waldorf remedial teacher and has taught poetry to children of all ages in both private and public schools. Inspired by her work with young people, she created a developmental program for kindergarten children implementing poetry, movement and music. Her passion is for speaking poetry, and she loves to include music in her readings. She also enjoys reading for retreats, crafting custom poetry on commission and working with young emerging artists. Currently Adams is leading a Grief Writing Group at Healing Circles in Langley, Washington and a biweekly Poetry Apothecary. and a poetry reading every Friday for the healing Circles Community. Adams has written many commissioned poems for weddings, birthdays and for other major life events including poems for gravestones.
“We live our own unique odyssey; graceful, awkward, refined, robust, dramatic, reflective as a river that flows through many landscapes of sunlight and darkness. We develop tools that form to our hands, worn down in a particular way so that getting our foot in the door of the poem becomes as easy as opening a well used gate. And from this place, like the hiker equipped for expedition, the demands of the poem or whatever is our art. Though we cannot be sure we will come out alive, it is the art by which we choose to live, by which we interpret the universe.”
Adam's background includes training in voice performance. She has worked over the years as a Waldorf remedial teacher and has taught poetry to children of all ages in both private and public schools. Inspired by her work with young people, she created a developmental program for kindergarten children implementing poetry, movement and music. Her passion is for speaking poetry, and she loves to include music in her readings. She also enjoys reading for retreats, crafting custom poetry on commission and working with young emerging artists. Currently Adams is leading a Grief Writing Group at Healing Circles in Langley, Washington and a biweekly Poetry Apothecary. and a poetry reading every Friday for the healing Circles Community. Adams has written many commissioned poems for weddings, birthdays and for other major life events including poems for gravestones.
“We live our own unique odyssey; graceful, awkward, refined, robust, dramatic, reflective as a river that flows through many landscapes of sunlight and darkness. We develop tools that form to our hands, worn down in a particular way so that getting our foot in the door of the poem becomes as easy as opening a well used gate. And from this place, like the hiker equipped for expedition, the demands of the poem or whatever is our art. Though we cannot be sure we will come out alive, it is the art by which we choose to live, by which we interpret the universe.”